Mirai Nagasu Quotes
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I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?
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For the American culture to evolve and include Asians is so amazing.
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Michelle Kwan was an inspiration for everyone, including me.
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Although there's a stigma that you learn only until a certain point, and then you just maintain, for me to learn the triple axel at 24 goes to show that anything's possible.
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I wanted to make America proud.
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If you really put your mind to it, anything is possible.
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I sometimes think about adult skating and how, you know, people like Midori Ito, she competed at the adult world championships. I feel like I'll probably be someone like that.
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It's been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out.
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I get about seven hours of sleep a night.
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I pride myself on being Japanese American.
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I can snap my toes. Everyone keeps asking me this, but I know it's kind of weird, but I think it's fun that I can snap my toes.
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I would like to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' because I want to be a star.
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My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate - especially my dad - he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too.
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Something that I saw in Sochi that I didn't get the opportunity to have in Vancouver was the team holding hands with arms in the air and medals around their neck.
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I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.
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Getting to the Olympics was the hard part.
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The only thing I can expect from myself is to learn from each competition and improve.
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My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.
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Never lose your undying belief in yourself and your abilities.
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I always want to try for what's been offered to me.
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During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'
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There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.
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I'm not a fadeaway type of person; I don't have that type of personality.
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I fall a lot during training.