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

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" 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. "

" It's reassuring knowing that people are supporting me and want to know more about me. It comes with being the national champion and making the Olympic team. I think that it's telling me I'm on the right path. "

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

" I have confidence in how I've trained and prepared myself. I've dreamed about the Olympics for a long time, and it would be kind of silly and a waste to freak myself out. "

" I've always had Russian coaches. "

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

" 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 try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery. "

" That's something I'm actually very interested in doing, helping young skaters. "

" 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. "

" There's always things that I can improve on. "

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

" I have my own life to live. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn't feel it at all. "

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

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

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

" I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes. "

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

" 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. "

" Netflix isn't available internationally all the time, but the NBA is. It's nice to have something that feels like home. "

" These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess. "

" 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. "

" Half of learning a new element is just getting over the fear of doing it. Once you mentally prepare yourself enough to do the jump, that is really half the battle. "

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

" I wanted to be a goalie. "

" 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. "