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" I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up. "
Nathan Chen
Life
Up
Never
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" Every day is a new day, and ultimately, I have to figure out what works each day. "
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" I like biology a lot. "
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" I tend to be a little bit more quiet and just to myself. I'm a little bit more introverted than extroverted. "
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" We were all just taught to work as hard as we could, use these opportunities to advance, and just really appreciate all that we had. "
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" I want to be a full-package skater. "
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" I have a very close family. I have four older siblings: two brothers and two sisters. "
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" Netflix isn't available internationally all the time, but the NBA is. It's nice to have something that feels like home. "
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" I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery. "
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" It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again. "
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" If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect thing in whatever your sport is. You just get that adrenaline rush, a sense of satisfaction, like you want to do it again and again. "
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" Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing. "
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" I love jumping. I have always loved jumping. I love watching jumps. I love doing jumps. "
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Always
Loved
" I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City. "
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Held
" I have confidence in how I've trained and prepared myself. I've dreamed about the Olympics for a long time, and it would be kind of silly and a waste to freak myself out. "
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" From a logistical standpoint, I learned about when to peak, when to push, when to recover throughout the season. "
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Learned
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" The Olympics really started motivating me from the very start. That was my dream from the very beginning. "
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" It's something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it's the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it's not. "
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" My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me. "
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Wanted
Stuck
" I celebrate my hardworking parents and all the opportunities they gave me. "
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Me
Parents
" There's always things that I can improve on. "
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Improve
Always
" These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess. "
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" A lot of the things I do outside the rink are just to relax and recover. We spend so much time at the rink, so it's nice to decompress a little. "
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" As a kid growing up, I didn't want to tell any of my classmates I did figure-skating because I knew they'd be like, 'Oh, you're a skater, you're gay, blah blah blah.' So I kept it to myself. Once I started getting to more of an elite level, I didn't really care what people thought, though. "
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