Top 40 Ashley Wagner Quotes

I can adapt to change easily, but I’m not a fan of it.

The SoCal weather can’t be beat, but I just haven‘t quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.

After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV… and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year‘s Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night!

I love to win, honestly… If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I’m hooked on it.

The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

I love ‘The Vampire Diaries!’ I can’t help it – it’s such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys.

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you’re trying to come up with a costume design.

I love hanging out with friends and family.

I’m not a crier.

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

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.

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.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

I’m very much a technical person.

I am going to get involved with giving back to military families.

Nothing has been easy for me… I’ve always had to work for everything I’ve gotten and everything I’ve accomplished.

You should not be defined by one bad performance.

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.

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.

I’m scrappy.

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days.

My parents told me, ‘Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.’

I haven’t mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I’m a total girlie-girl.

Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.

I’m vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that’s not where it’s time to make friends.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

I always loved Michelle Kwan’s outfits. Most of them were designed by Vera Wang, and they’re just so simple, but the fabric that they used and the way that it was sewn together look so elegant and rich. You could tell that time had been put into it. It wasn’t just another spandex, stucco-covered costume.

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.

I by no means quit social media.

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.

I love hockey. That’s actually one of my favorite sports.

I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn’t have before, so it’s really important, and it’s a great way to get people involved and excited about what you’re doing.

My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.

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.