Ryan Lochte

“I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.”

“I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?”

“I want to get to know a woman before I take them out on a date or anything like that.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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'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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.”

“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.”

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

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