Riley Gaines

You're being raised wrong.

through this coddling university system, you're being introduced as a young, influential person to these preposterous Marxist ideas that have never worked anywhere, that I always equate with rabies.

It's like rabies kills like 99% of the people.

Imagine being someone who's like, yeah, but it's just like, no one's figured out how to do rabies right.

Like, I'm gonna do rabies right.

That's what communism is.

It's ruined every single fucking country it's ever been implemented in.

And we're like, yeah, but we gotta do it right.

But we can do it.

It's the dumbest fucking idea of all time.

But young people are easily suggestible, are easily influenced.

They don't have life experiences.

Especially if you've never engaged in anything good, truly difficult.

One thing I notice about high-level athletes in particular is that there's no room for bullshit.

There's no room for bullshit.

If you're in the pool six hours a day, there's no room for bullshit.

There's no room for your fake talk and nonsense and this is what it is.

And if I don't appreciate it for what it is, then I'm losing time.

Then I'm fucked and I'm behind.

It's like there's a level of discipline that's involved.