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

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" 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. "

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

Believe In Yourself

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

" Sometimes, it's hard for me to communicate my discomfort because I want to be respectful. At the same time, I've learned that you have to ask people on your team to help you out. "

" When I come home from training, my attention immediately has to focus on my school courses, which helps keep the stress level balanced. I mostly balance both by drinking a lot of coffee and making sure I time manage well, which doesn't happen all the time, especially during finals week. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part. "

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

" I've dreamed about going to the Olympics ever since I was young. "

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

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

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

" For my dad to say he's proud of me - in English - is a really big deal. "

" As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability. "

" Narcissism is just self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous. "

" To all the little girls out there, I would tell them to really appreciate what their parents do for them. And also to truly believe in their dream. If they truly believe that they're capable, things will happen for them - as long as they put in the work, of course. "

" I'm great at dishwashing. "

" 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! "