Ryan Lochte Quotes

• I have found that in order to succeed you cannot be afraid of change.

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• You know, you pick and choose your battles.

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• I’ve always been honest with all my kids. So I – if they did well, they did well. And if they didn’t, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can’t make you go out there and work out hard.

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• No matter what, like, I couldn’t – I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That’s what she says all the time.

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• I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

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• I’m going to keep living my life the way I’ve been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

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• If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn’t meant to be.

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• I took my weight training to a new level.

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• I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.

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• I wasn’t really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

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• Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it’s about to pay off. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see this summer.

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• I honestly think if I would’ve tied my suit and there wouldn’t have been any water rushing through it, I think I could’ve gone at least a second faster.

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• My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there’s air, water in there. I was freaking out.

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• It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

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• I hate to lose. I like winning.

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• The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

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• I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it’s time to get ready.

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• I’m going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts – just speed.

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• Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world’s stage and hopefully do the United States proud.

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• My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, ‘You can become an Olympic champion.’ And that’s the first time that I’d heard someone else say that to me. I was like, ‘Uh, are you talking to me?’

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Ryan Lochte (27)

Birth:	3rd August, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Swimmer

About

Ryan Steven Lochte is an American international swimmer and an eleven-time Olympic medalist. His seven individual Olympic medals rank as second all-time in men's swimming. As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

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