Colin Jost Quotes

I swam in high school.

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

No one ever watched competitive swimming.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

I played sports in high school and in college.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

I started competing in cross-country when I was seven years old.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

I feel good. I'm up there. I got third in the 100 'fly, I've qualified in the top eight already for the 100 freestyle.

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

I represented Mexico trying to go to the Olympics.

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

Going to the Olympics would have been great.

We play so hard and overall the Olympics are such a positive experience.

Growing up, I was a water baby. We lived near a lake, had a pool in our backyard, and as soon as I was old enough, I joined a swim team. By 10, I was winning local events.

I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.