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Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.
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When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.
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I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.
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When I'm competing, I need to be strong.
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I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.
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I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.
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I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
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I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.
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When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom made teaching went into my skating.
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I want people to see a real person on the ice. I want to seem tangible, hard-working, passionate about my skating, not just going out and doing something I've rehearsed a million times.
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You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.
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Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
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A lot of people who watch figure skaters want us to look like pretty princesses. I want people to see the athlete, and I want to look like a woman among girls.
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I'm not a crier.
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I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.
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In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.'
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You should not be defined by one bad performance.
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To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.
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People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.
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To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.
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Skaters are infamously superstitious.
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Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
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For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.
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I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.
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Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
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From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
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I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.
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I'm scrappy.
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Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.
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My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'
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