"So at that point I'd tried everything. I'd been on TV, had my own TV show, received many medals... I was riding high." Ryan Lochte's face wasn't showing a lot of emotion as he talked. It was somewhat similar to watching a lecture from the most boring teacher. The kind of teacher that could make true crime and campfire stories into a fairly efficient lullaby. Who put him up there on the stage? "At that point I was at the height of my fame. I thought everybody knew my name. I spent most of my time training, but I appeared on lots of TV shows and I got calls from interviewers and sponsors and my manager was loving it. When I floated the idea for my own TV show, no one thought I could do it. But I told them that I was going to be successful. That's the only mentality that works. It's how I get through any competition or anything. Anyway, my stereotype has always been a "dumb jock" so I wanted to prove them wrong. I wanted to be able t...
"I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid." -Lois Lowry, The Giver