Quotes from Ryan Lochte

I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

I'm at a point where I'm ready to settle down. Every girl I meet, though, something wrong happens, and I end up getting hurt.

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

No matter what I'm doing, I'm training. I'm training every day and I think that's something I won't lose - no matter what I do, no matter what event I'm at, I always find a way to train. It's just something that I love to do.

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.

I've hung out with Jay-Z a couple of times, and he was awesome.

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

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.

If I just swam all day, I'd lose it. That's why I do so many other activities. It keeps me sane.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

I'm definitely laid back. I don't take things so seriously.

I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me.

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

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.

I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.

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?'