Quotes from Ryan Lochte

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

The whole Kardashian family, they have a bunch of energy.

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

My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.

If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.

When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

If you're a man at night, you've got to be a man in the morning.

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.

There's people out there that are like, 'Oh my God, I want to have your kid. I want to marry you.' People that I've never even met. That's sweet. It's funny.

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.