Top 67 Ashley Wagner Quotes
#1. I am going to get involved with giving back to military families.
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#2. 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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#3. I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I'm an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake.
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#4. For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.
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#5. 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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#6. Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
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#7. The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.
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#8. I try to stay low-carb and high on lean protein. I'm lucky in that I love chicken and rice; it's one of my favorite meals. I steam some vegetables and top them with olive oil for some flavor.
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#9. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful
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#15. Nothing has been easy for me ... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.
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#17. I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.
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#18. You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.
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#19. I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.
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#20. I'm a strong-headed person, and you can always tell how I'm feeling in that moment.
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#22. 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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#23. I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
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#24. From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#28. 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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#29. I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.
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#30. 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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#31. When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.
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#32. You should not be defined by one bad performance.
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#33. I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.
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#34. 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!
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#35. If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.
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#39. It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who doesn't know everything about skating.
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#41. 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.
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#43. To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.
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#44. I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.
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#45. Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.
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#46. I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.
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#47. I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.
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#50. The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.
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#51. In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.'
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#52. I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.
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#53. 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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#54. My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'
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#55. Covergirl is my sponsor, and they have been so helpful in supplying me with their wonderful products. I love their blush, mascara and lip gloss.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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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#58. Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
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#59. I love to win, honestly ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.
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#60. Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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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#64. I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.
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#65. I hate doing Tabatas - you do whatever you want at high intensity for 20 seconds, and then get a 10 second break and you repeat that for 8 minutes. So you can do jumping jacks for 20 seconds, you can do sprints for 20 seconds, etc. It's supposed to help you get your endurance up really fast.
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#66. 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.
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#67. I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.
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