I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, "I can do this." Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

Ryan Lochte

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

Ryan Lochte

morning men night

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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mom gold would-be

Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah

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cuz stars moon

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

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sick losing lost

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

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lace sole shoes

It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's ‘jee-ah.’ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that ‘J.’ And then the ‘A-H’ kinda just flows.

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boring flow want

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

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bananas pops jumping

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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senior dad school

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

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endurance tolerance pain

I love swimming because racing.

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i-love-swimming swimming racing

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.

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swimmer athlete winning

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.

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always-trying rocks car

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

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top-hats my-favorite president

I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

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bigs stuff people

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.'

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superstar names kids

Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. 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.

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swimming fashion sports

Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!

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sometimes

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

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athlete player knows

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.

Ryan Lochte

clothing-line swimming fashion

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

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grew-up mom listening