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" Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models. "
Adam Rippon
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" Honestly, it's really fun to be yourself. It's really fun to be me. "
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" Sometimes when you're not confident in yourself, to see someone who doesn't care - and I don't care anymore. I really don't care - it gives you that confidence. "
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" I'm confident in who I and what I'm doing. "
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" I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start. "
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" Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust. "
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" Sometimes I might meet people, and they might just not like me, not want to get to know me. And that's OK. They're boring as hell anyway. "
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" I think I've shown the world I'm a fierce competitor, yes. But I've also shown them that I'm a fierce human being. "
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" I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor. "
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" Being gay is not something that defines me. What defines me is what my mom always taught me: to treat everyone with respect, to always be a hard worker, and to be kind. "
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" I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink. "
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Dance
Time
" I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber. "
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" I can't explain witchcraft. "
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" I love being active. "
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Being
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" My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in. "
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" As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master. "
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Try
Think
I Can
" When you're not hiding anything, it's just very easy to be yourself - shockingly. "
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Easy
You
" I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can. "
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Else
" I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.' "
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Me
People
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" I'm like a witch! You can't kill me! "
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" I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything. "
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Want
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" For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted. "
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Life
Trust
Time
" Haters are fans in denial. "
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" When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life. "
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" If you ever have the option, come to the Olympics. It's, like, a fun time. "
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