Ashley Wagner Quotes
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I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.
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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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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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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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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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I'm very much a technical person.
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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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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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Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
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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 know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.
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I am going to get involved with giving back to military families.
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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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I'm scrappy.
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When I'm competing, I need to be strong.
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To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.
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You should not be defined by one bad performance.
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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 by no means quit social media.
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I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.
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Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
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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 love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.
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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.