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

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" I fall a lot during training. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

Anything Is Possible

" 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. "

" Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating. "

" Narcissism is just self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

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

" Pre-competition rituals include nap time, because when competition rolls around, I'm a sloth. I also FaceTime my dogs. "

" My parents always tell me that they never would have let me start if they had known how expensive and difficult figure skating is. "

" I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit! "

" For the American culture to evolve and include Asians is so amazing. "

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

" Sports are evolving and always evolving, and people have that determination to keep going and coming back. I think I'm one of those athletes. I stand to show that people shouldn't give up. You've got to just keep going until you succeed. "

" It's easy to look into the future and worry about the past. "

" Japanese people, they're not really one to complain. "

" I sometimes think about adult skating and how, you know, people like Midori Ito, she competed at the adult world championships. I feel like I'll probably be someone like that. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

" If I fall, I'll take the fall and get up and keep going. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I've eaten sea urchin and that shebang. "

" I've learned a lot from my parents. "