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" Narcissism is just self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

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

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

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

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

" Maybe Asians are switching from studying to sports. "

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

" 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 wanted to make America proud. "

" I think my own thinking is harsher than my mom's discipline. "

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

Believe In Yourself

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" I pride myself on being Japanese American. "

" 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. "

" I think being in the public eye has made me more determined than other people to show that I do belong at the top, and I believe I am one of the hardest-working people at the rink. I feel like I have always been that way, but sometimes I just get in my own way. "

" I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink. "

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

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

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

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

Anything Is Possible

" I got to meet Rachel Platten, who sings 'Fight Song,' I love that song. "