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" I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy. "

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" My mom is really dedicated to me. She drives me to school and skating, wakes up for me, and I'm just really appreciative. "

" When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to go before I'm really old. "

" I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap. "

" I fall a lot during training. "

" It's been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out. "

" I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child. "

" I skate six days a week, three sessions a day, and I go to the gym three times a week. I lift weights, do some ab work and whatever my trainer tells me to do. I take Saturdays off. "

" I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big deal. "

" 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. "

" It was really, really heartbreaking to not be named to the team in Sochi, but some things are just not meant to be. That experience changed me as a skater. I took a step back and decided that some things are not worth accepting. I wanted to be on another Olympic team. I took time to evolve myself as a person and as a skater. "

" I have always believed that I've been an amazing skater regardless of what the results say. "

" My dad is a very creative type of person, so he has rolls that make no sense to most people familiar with sushi. He has a High Five roll. What is that? Don't ask questions. Just try it. He's kind of mischievous, and that's how I am, too. "

" A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn't strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd! "

" Never lose your undying belief in yourself and your abilities. "

" I always want to try for what's been offered to me. "

" Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete. "

" Narcissism is just self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well. "

" My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in a million years, so I hope I represent not only Team U.S.A., but the Japanese-American culture and my family as well. "

" It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, 'You became independent really quickly, and I'm so proud of you,' but she misses me all the same. "

" 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. "

" My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate - especially my dad - he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too. "

" I wanted to make America proud. "

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

" 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. "

" Just really believe in yourself and stay true to yourself. "

Believe In Yourself

" There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating. "

" If you really put your mind to it, anything is possible. "

Anything Is Possible

" 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. "