Lochte? (Page 2)

And as long as we're comparing athletes, have you ever listened to a player from a major ball sport being interviewed? Swimmers sound like PhD's in literature by comparison. And how about the brilliance of a post-race NASCAR interview?

"The car... the car handled real good... we were just really happy with what was going on... I don't know what to do with my hands..."

LMAO...

If you look at my original post, you'll see I never mentioned Phelps.  I contrasted Lochte's 2 post-swim interviews that I had seen the previous night, and I contrasted the impression I had with the impression I gathered from Brendan Hansen's and Missy Franklin's post-race interviews.  In no way, shape, or form did I find (nor did my wife) Lochte to be humble in his post-race interviews.      

I actually never saw Lochte's sit-down interview with Ryan Seacrest...so I drew no conclusions from that.  The autograph story Lisa brought up is nice to hear...I can bump Lochte up a notch on my respect-o-meter.  

Well I guess the whole family needs media relations training... Thanks Mom!

http://olympics.yardbarker.com/blog/olympics/article/ryan_lochtes_mother_claims_he_only_has_time_for_one_night_stands/11352823

I've never met him

Mrbbrad, I've never met him either...in fact, there are lots of folks I've never met that I can peg pretty accurately.  Thank you gomesbolt for seemingly confirming my suspicions on this guy.  I originally said, "a wee bit on the arrogant side," ...personally, I find the quote from his mother (if true, which I have to believe it is) to be appalling.  Yeah, I'm a bit on the judgmental side, but to me, that's just gross.

Says the man that idolizes Axl. 

You just made a 40 year old white man say OH SNAP! out loud alone in his office. 

Well played. 

umm, no.  I don't do idolatry.

On topic, the link GomesBolt posted was interesting to say the least...I think it explains a lot.

Yeah, but he's single and may sleep with alot of women........THE HORROR!!!!

Yo Left Brain, I think you misspelled (edit here, apparently the word that sounds a lot like horror and rhymes with door is not allowed)  

C'mon brother.....he's having the time of his life.  He's young, single, an Olympic champion, and having a ball.  Find me a story where he has hurt someone, or been a poor role model, or didn't work his arse off and sacrifice to get where he is.  

I have no problem pointing to him as a role model for my son. 

Good point. 

That was my point in posting that article.  I think the comments she made should have been filtered a little better. 

Lochte is making a killing on this olympics from sponsors and he has had a great olympics (a bronze, 2 silvers and 2 golds- not Phelps great, but pretty great).  But comments like his Mom's could make the sponsors look elsewhere in 4 years.  Missy Franklin perhaps. 

Yes and this interview was not very good either. He is great in the pool but not a natural in front of the camera for sure.

I don't have much to say about the shoes and grills realizing that I am 40 and probably out of touch. Let's just say I don't get it and now that I know all of that I find myself rooting for the underdog when he races.

As a former Gator, I am seriously wondering what would happen if you could combine the DNA of Lochte and Tebow....  Would it be like some kind of matter / anti-matter collision that would wipe out half of Florida?

That hybrid would single-handedly take the innocence from 90% of the female members of the ChristianMingle.com community.

"The muscles, the nice shoes, the grills with crosses...I couldn't resist!" the ladies would say.

Just watched Phelps not straight out of the pool and much more eloquent.  It's got to be something with lack of oxygen and all the neurons not firing right out of the pool to interview well.

Now that is funny.....