Top 70 Ryan Lochte Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Pain is temporary, but pride lasts forever.”

— Ryan Lochte

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2. “Stay motivated, set goals, have fun.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

4. “You know, you pick and choose your battles.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

6. “I hate to lose. I like winning.”

— Ryan Lochte

7. “Have fun, because that’s what life is all about.”

— Ryan Lochte

8. “I’m not jealous of anybody, because I’m going to live my life the way I want to live it. I’m not going to be like, ‘Oh my God they have this, I want that.’”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

10. “For those who are understood no need to explain.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

12. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

14. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

15. “I like girls who really don’t care what other people are thinking – girls who are a little goofy. I think that’s sexy.”

— Ryan Lochte

16. “In life, like, I’m always living life to the fullest to always have fun.”

— Ryan Lochte

17. “That’s the quickest way to my heart: Laughter.”

— Ryan Lochte

18. “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?’”

— Ryan Lochte

19. “I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.”

— Ryan Lochte

20. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

23. “I can’t eat beans – all beans. I think because I’m half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, ‘Enough with it,’ and I can’t even stand to taste it anymore.”

— Ryan Lochte

24. “I might wear my pink Speedo. I think I should.”

— Ryan Lochte

25. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

26. “You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I’m pretty much sold.”

— Ryan Lochte

27. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

28. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

30. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

31. “My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend – big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.”

— Ryan Lochte

32. “The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

34. “I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That’s from my mom.”

— Ryan Lochte

35. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

36. “Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!”

— Ryan Lochte

37. “I’m just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you’re usually not going to get it.”

— Ryan Lochte

38. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

39. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

40. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

44. “One thing I won’t do: I won’t give up on love.”

— Ryan Lochte

45. “Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time – and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.”

— Ryan Lochte

46. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

47. “I don’t know if I’m a good kickball player; I know I’m a good athlete.”

— Ryan Lochte

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

— Ryan Lochte

49. “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.”

— Ryan Lochte

50. “Alec Baldwin is so funny.”

— Ryan Lochte