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"    Photo: J-Squared Photography   On April 21, thanks to E!, the life of Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte will be an open book. Judging from his new show&amp;#039;s trailer and its truth-or-dare-like title\u2014What Would Ryan Lochte Do?\u2014Lochte isn&amp;#039;t your typical gold medalist. Why? He parties. He talks to girls. And he isn&amp;#039;t afraid to document it on camera. Yet Lochte&amp;#039;s reality show antics serve a higher purpose, he told ELLE.com. &amp;quot;I want to make swimming bigger than what it is today; bigger than what it was during the Olympics,&amp;quot; he revealed, which seems doable\u2014if viewers tune in for more than his seemingly Photoshopped abs. &amp;quot;People don&amp;#039;t ask [about swimming] as much anymore. After the Olympics, that&amp;#039;s all it was\u2014questions about swimming\u2014but now, with the show, that&amp;#039;s on people&amp;#039;s minds right now and that&amp;#039;s what they want to talk about. But I am an Olympic athlete.&amp;quot;   ELLE.com caught up with 2016 Olympic hopeful\u2014who had just finished a five-hour practice\u2014to talk about his insta-viral Kim Kardashian quote, his new outlook on dating, and his fashion ambitions. Age: 28 Provenance: &amp;quot;Born in Rochester, New York\u2014but grew up most of my life in Daytona Beach&amp;quot; Dating Status: Single On defining a player: &amp;quot;A player is someone\u2014a guy\u2014that messes with girls&amp;#039; emotions just to try and get what they want. I&amp;#039;ve been asked, &amp;#039;Do you consider yourself a player?&amp;#039; And the answer is no. I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;m anywhere near that. I&amp;#039;m still looking for that one true love. I&amp;#039;m putting myself out there. I&amp;#039;m going on dates to find that one for me. I really want to be in a relationship.&amp;quot; On his version of happily ever after: &amp;quot;I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.&amp;quot; On relationship deal-breakers: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s usually something about my lifestyle that women can&amp;#039;t keep up with. I&amp;#039;m an Olympic athlete, so there are a lot of obligations that I have for my sponsors. I&amp;#039;m on the road sometimes, and I&amp;#039;m not always there every day. Girls don&amp;#039;t seem to understand this\u2014that kind of lifestyle\u2014unless I were to date another Olympic athlete.&amp;quot; On the evolution of his ideal woman: &amp;quot;Before the show, I thought I knew what I wanted in a girl. I&amp;#039;d go to a bar, or be somewhere, and I&amp;#039;d ask the most attractive girl there out on a date. That&amp;#039;s how I used to be. During the show, I met a lot of women\u2014because of going out in all the different places [we filmed]. And, [again], I looked for the best-looking girl in the room to talk to and ask out\u2014just because she was nice to look at. But, now, I want to get to know her before I go on a date. I want to have that base\u2014that friendship\u2014and then move from there.&amp;quot; On his favorite word\u2014beside &amp;quot;Jeah!&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. I really like jeah. You can use jeah in any [way]. Jeah is kind of like another word for saying yeah\u2014it just has a little swag to it.&amp;quot; On those who question his intelligence: &amp;quot;With any interview\u2014it could be an hour-long interview\u2014if I make a mistake, they run with that, instead of getting the main gist of what I was saying. I understand. I think that&amp;#039;s one of the things I&amp;#039;ve learned from this show. I&amp;#039;m more aware of the things I need to be more aware of. I have to watch what I say. I have to watch what I do\u2014at all times, not just part of the time.&amp;quot; On his Kim Kardashian quote that went viral: &amp;quot;The headline that ran\u2014saying I want to be like Kim Kardashian\u2014it was an hour and a half long interview. At some point, I talked about Kim Kardashian. She&amp;#039;s part of the E! family. I love her. I respect her. She&amp;#039;s done great with her business. And that&amp;#039;s what I was trying to get at. I really respect Kim Kardashian. So, when they asked, &amp;#039;Do you want to be like her?&amp;#039; She started from nothing and now she can&amp;#039;t go anywhere without people taking pictures or without people knowing about her, knowing who she is. I think that&amp;#039;s pretty cool.&amp;quot; On courting fame: &amp;quot;The more people who know me, they&amp;#039;ll say, &amp;#039;Oh, that&amp;#039;s Ryan Lochte. He&amp;#039;s a swimmer.&amp;#039; And they&amp;#039;ll be more interested in the sport of swimming. That&amp;#039;s one of the main reasons why I&amp;#039;m doing this show\u2014to get more people involved in the sport. I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.&amp;quot;  On his passion for the water: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s just something about the water. I could be having the worst day, but once I step foot into that water. I&amp;#039;m like one with the water. It&amp;#039;s honestly like my second home. I feel so calm. That&amp;#039;s why I can hold my breath for so long\u2014because I feel comfortable. I would stay underwater all day, if I could.&amp;quot; On the most fun he&amp;#039;s had in the water: &amp;quot;I was in the ocean on my surfboard. I wanted to take a break, so I decided to just lie there on my surfboard, in the ocean. I seriously ended up lying there for two or three hours. It was a point of relaxation that I would love to go to all the time. I didn&amp;#039;t have a care in the world\u2014no girlfriend problems or anything going on in my life that&amp;#039;s a distraction. Everything disappeared. I was at peace. It felt so good. I would love to do that again.&amp;quot; On his fashion aspirations: &amp;quot;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\u2014when it&amp;#039;s all said and done\u2014I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design  my own clothing line. I&amp;#039;m very into fashion. It&amp;#039;s something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.&amp;quot; On his style icons: &amp;quot;Dwyane Wade is one of my favorite basketball players. I&amp;#039;ve hung out with him a lot. He dresses so sharp, all the time. I really look up to him as a fashion icon.&amp;quot; On his personal style: &amp;quot;I like taking different pieces from different designers and making it my own. My style is really nice, slick. I like wearing nice suits, or a nice casual look\u2014but I want to put a little edge to it.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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