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" I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California. "

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" I think I would be bored if I were winning all the time, even though it would be nice. "

" Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me up in order to get me ready for skating before school. "

" I can snap my toes. Everyone keeps asking me this, but I know it's kind of weird, but I think it's fun that I can snap my toes. "

" There are moments when I think I'm not very smart and not very pretty, and skating is the only thing that stands out about me. It's like the love of my life. When you love someone, sometimes you want to break up. "

" Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it. "

" On a normal day, I would wake up at 7:00 A.M. and spend about three to four hours training every day. But all of that depends on my school schedule. School and classes usually run from 8:00-10:40 A.M., but not before I've had a coffee for breakfast. "

" I got to meet Rachel Platten, who sings 'Fight Song,' I love that song. "

" I tell my boyfriend that... we should get a ranch so we can just adopt all the dogs that need homes, and they can just run around all day. "

" I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely. "

" I'm really good at window shopping, or I'll go into a store and just choose one thing. "

" I think it's because I'm so hard on myself that I can push myself this far. "

" It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given. "

" Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they're an athlete or not. "

" I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class. "

" I pride myself on being Japanese American. "

" I really believe in myself. "

" When someone really, truly believes in themselves, magic happens. "

" Something that I saw in Sochi that I didn't get the opportunity to have in Vancouver was the team holding hands with arms in the air and medals around their neck. "

" Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person. "

" I get about seven hours of sleep a night. "

" I would like to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' because I want to be a star. "

" I'm that person: I will literally do everything to not get out of bed, so I have alarms set for every 15 minutes. "

" I have a great work ethic because I've watched my parents work super hard. "

" I'm not a fadeaway type of person; I don't have that type of personality. "

" I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me? "

" I don't necessarily always feel happy when I'm skating. "

" Although there's a stigma that you learn only until a certain point, and then you just maintain, for me to learn the triple axel at 24 goes to show that anything's possible. "

" Getting to the Olympics was the hard part. "