Everybody's tastes are different but for the most part, we all eat the same. Most people have two or three meals a day, trying to eat on the healthier side but having a few more "bad" foods than they should.

But athletes aren't normal people. As such, they don't always have normal eating habits. Some of the things that the people at the tops of their sports put into their bodies will shock you.

David Carter

The NFL defensive lineman's diet wouldn't be all that strange if he was just the average person you saw walking down the street. But it is definitely strange to find out that the 6'5 athlete maintains his 300 pounds of muscle on a purely vegan diet. He said sticking to a diet that contains absolutely no animal products not only saved his life, it saved "the countless lives of voiceless and defenseless animals everywhere."

Herschel Walker

Best known for his football career, Walker also went to the olympics as a bobsledder and even had a brief career in mixed martial arts. He's known for his unorthodox training techniques, building his impressive physique purely through thousands of push ups, sit ups and other bodyweight exercises. Never one to follow conventional wisdom, he only eats one meal a day, usually a large salad, or soup with bread, and has been a vegetarian for decades.

Wade Boggs

Boggs seemed more like a figure out of a work of fiction than a real man. He had 3010 hits and 118 homeruns over his 18 season MLB career, which was impressive enough, but his eating and drinking habits were the stuff of legend. Boggs was a formidable beer drinker, to the point where there is an urban legend about him drinking between 50 and 107 beers in a 24 hour period, depending on who you ask. What's certain is that he would eat an entire chicken before each of his MLB games.

Jon Call

You may have seen videos of the long-haired guy who is as goofy as he is muscular, doing splits on chairs with a weighted barbell overhead or flipping around in an open field. That would be Call, better known online as Jujimufu, creator of countless Youtube videos and "Acrobolix," a mixture of acrobatics and anabolic exercise. To maintain his shredded physique, he prepares 100 pounds of chicken, 15 pounds of potatoes, and 12 cups of rice at the start of each week.

Lamar Odom

The two time NBA champ powered those performances and others with an unusual fuel: candy. Before games -- and sometimes during -- Odom would scarf down the most sugary stuff he could get his hands on, including Lifesavers, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme bars, Twizzlers, and "peachy sugar coated rings." On one night, he reportedly ate an entire bowl of Starburst jelly beans before a game. "We all got vices," he said. "I guess sugar is just one of mine."

John Daly

He was known for being a much rougher character than most in the golfing world, not much fitting the "country club" mold. He had a fondness for drinking beer and smoked around 40 cigarettes a day, but perhaps the strangest thing he put in his body was an inordinate amount of Diet Coke. in a 2014 interview, he said "I used to have 26-28 cans a day. Now I have 10-12 at the most." It was doubly strange, considering he doesn't like carbonation, having to drink the soda slowly and over ice to cut down on the fizz.

Michael Phelps

Winning 28 gold medals, by far the most of any olympic athlete, takes a lot of training. And putting in a crazy amount of work builds up an appetite like nothing else. So Phelps ate like he meant it, regularly consuming 8 to 12,000 calories on training days. That usually meant three fried egg sandwiches, a bowl of grits, French toast with powdered sugar, and chocolate chip pancakes -- and that was just breakfast.

Robert Oberst

One of the simplest and truest bits of common wisdom in the world of pumping iron is "you've got to eat big to get big." So when someone is, 6'8, pushing 400lbs, and winning strongman competitions, you can be sure they eat plenty. "[My diet] is very strict. I get one day off every four weeks where I can eat what I want," he said. "I eat three-and-a-half pounds of meat a day, six cups of rice, a bunch of pasta, and no cheese or dairy. It's just all high protein, low fat stuff." His daily goal is to consume 20,000 calories.

Justin Verlander

Baseball is a particularly superstitious game, with lots of players sticking to certain "winning" routines, lest their luck run out. But most are healthier than Verlander's whose routine involves in going to Taco Bell before each time he takes the pitching mound. "[I get the] same thing every time," he said on the Conan O'Brien show. "Three crunchy Taco Supremes, no tomato, cheesy Gordita Crunch, and a Mexican Pizza, no tomato."

Usain Bolt

The aptly named Bolt dominated 100 meter and 200 meter events for an unparalleled reign over three Olympics, breaking his own records again and again. But the 2008 Olympics early in his career wore remarkable not just for the victories, but what he ate. Bolt said he found the Chinese food served in Beijing "odd" so he opted to eat McDonald's chicken nuggets almost exclusively during his stay. He won three gold medals on a diet of roughly 100 chicken nuggets a day.

Babe Ruth

The Sultan of Swat will always be one of the heroes of baseball due to his otherworldly slugging skills but his diet was perhaps the most uncanny thing about him. He started each day with a breakfast of half a dozen eggs, a porterhouse steak, and a helping of potatoes, washed down with a quart of bourbon and ginger ale. He also had to be rushed to the hospital once after "the bellyache heard round the world," caused by binging on hot dogs and soda before a game.

Laffit Pincay Jr.

While most athletes' primary concern is getting their body the fuel it needs, for jockey's like the legendary Pincay, it's all about being as light as possible while still being able to perform. The kind of discipline necessary is illustrated by what he ate on the flight to a race, as told by his trainer D. Wayne Lukas. "About four hours into the flight, Laffit asks the stewardess for half a cup of bullion. He sips a little of it and swallows." Later on, as Lukas was eating a bag of airline peanuts, "Laffit reaches over, takes one peanut and lays it on his tray." Rather than just popping the peanut in his mouth, he split it in half, washed it down with a little bullion, then ate the other half when the plane landed.

Venus Williams

The tennis star was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease called Sjogren's Syndrome in 2011. To help deal with it, she adopted a raw vegan diet, meaning not only that she lays off any sort of meat or animal product, she eats nothing but completely uncooked fruits and vegetables.

Dwight Howard

The star center has often been referred to as a "big kid" throughout his career and that name certainly applied to his love of candy and soda. When he learned during a meeting with a doctor in 2012 that he was taking in the equivalent of 24 Hershey bars of sugar in a day, it set off alarm bells. After that time, he responsibly cut sweets out of his diet entirely.

Chad Johnson

Johnson, who briefly changed his name legally to Ochocinco, was an NFL player with an interesting philosophy when it comes to diet. He said in a 2009 interview that he essentially "survives on McDonald's," believing that if you work as hard as you can in the weight room, it truly doesn't matter what you eat. In 2010 he tweeted out "I have randomly been selected for the drug testing policy today for the NFL, they ain't going to find nothing but McDonald's n' Red Bull."