Ashley Wagner Quotes

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

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

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

When I'm competing, I need to be strong.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

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.

In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.'

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.

I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful

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

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

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

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

When I fall, I fall hard.

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 by no means quit social media.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

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

I'm a strong-headed person, and you can always tell how I'm feeling in that moment.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I just believe in equality for all.

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

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

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

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.

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.

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.

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.

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

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.