Ashley Wagner Quotes
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I am going to get involved with giving back to military families.
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I'm scrappy.
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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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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 know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.
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You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.
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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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To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.
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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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I love hanging out with friends and family.
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Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
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I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.
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Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
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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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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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My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'
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I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.
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Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.
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I'm a strong-headed person, and you can always tell how I'm feeling in that moment.
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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.