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" Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump. "

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" I'm the baby for sure. My siblings are looking out for me, making sure I'm not doing something stupid. They are making sure my head is set straight and that I'm a good person outside of skating and inside of it, too. "

" I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City. "

" You have to have passion for what you do, or else it's difficult when the going gets tough. "

" I hate spiders; I'm terrified of spiders. "

" I want to get another Olympic medal outside the team event. "

" I would love to be working in a hospital or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals. "

" 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. "

" I've always had Russian coaches. "

" Just being here at the Olympics is pretty incredible in itself. Seeing the unity of the athletes and to see how everyone has worked so hard to get here - and we are all so excited to be here - it's awesome to be able to experience it. "

" There's a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there. "

" Being able to land all the quads, especially doing them all in one program, is mentally huge. "

" I just like to keep pushing myself and the sport. "

" 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. "

" Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps. "

" I really like to bike outdoors and love the weight-based workouts that I do. I am not the biggest fan of other cardio-based workouts. Off-season cardio sessions are pretty grueling. "

" Emma Watson definitely is my celebrity crush. I love 'Harry Potter.' Plus, she's gorgeous, which really helps. "

" Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing. "

" In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say. "

" 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. "

" My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship. "

" It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember. "

" I do very scientific-based training. However, for skating, that's a little bit out of the ordinary. Many skaters base their off-ice training around plyometrics, whereas mine is very strength- and power-based. "

" As a family, we are all intrinsically motivated. "

" Skating is a sport that I found a lot of interest in from a very, very young age. Ultimately, I think that being on the ice, being in the cold, and trying things and challenging myself in different ways is something that made me really interested in skating. "

" I genuinely dislike sequins. "

" I want to be a full-package skater. "

" I celebrate my hardworking parents and all the opportunities they gave me. "

" Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it. "

" I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating. "

" I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s. "