Ryan Lochte

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.

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.

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

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.

I've hung out with Jay-Z a couple of times, and he was awesome.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

I hate to lose. I like winning.

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.

I'm definitely laid back. I don't take things so seriously.

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.