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 thats the first time that Id heard someone else say that to me. I was like, Uh, are you talking to me? – Ryan Lochte
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
No matter what, like, I couldnt – 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. Thats what she says all the time. – Ryan Lochte
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont