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" My family and parents were very influential in my skating career. "

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

" I like the challenge and instant gratification of landing a new jump or learning a new element. That made me fall in love with the sport. "

" I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines. "

" I think doing a quint is very, very difficult. "

" The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid. "

" My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me. "

" I've been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps. "

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

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

" It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress. "

" That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint. "

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

" 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. "

" Like my parents taught me, never give up, and always love what you do. "

" My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life. "

" 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. "

" Every day's a new day. "

" When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through. "

" Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal. "

" Throughout the day, I'll snack a lot. I always have some breakfast cereal, like Kellogg's cereal, something on hand, so that I can just quickly get some carbs in. "

" There are always times when you don't want to go to the rink, or you don't want to do all the things you're supposed to do. Sometimes you're exhausted, or it's been a long week, but I always remind myself that this is my Olympic dream and the passion, because I love the sport very much. "

" Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating. "

" 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 like biology a lot. "

" I've skated after Yuzu a handful of times. The only thing I can take away from it is to be prepared for the Pooh-bears to be raining down from the audience. "

" I have a very close family. I have four older siblings: two brothers and two sisters. "

" I began skating in the official practice venue of the 2002 Games. It was a huge Olympic atmosphere with Apollo Ohno sitting on the wall every day when I walked into the rink. That was really cool and very inspiring to see. "

" Personally, I feel like there should be some sort of cap on the quads, but we should still be pushing it to a certain number. "

" There are always benefits and good things, bad things that come out of every performance. "

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