Adam Rippon Quotes
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All the sacrifices my mom and family had made had been worth it.
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I don't find it distracting to be me.
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I'm not like a gay icon or America's gay sweetheart. I'm just America's sweetheart, and I'm just an icon.
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I'm representing my country whether they like me or not.
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Sometimes I just get attention, and I really don't know how it happens.
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I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!
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Growing up, I really didn't have a lot of role models.
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Sometimes when you're not confident in yourself, to see someone who doesn't care - and I don't care anymore. I really don't care - it gives you that confidence.
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I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.
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If I forgot to put something on, and I have to wear a trash bag, I'm just like, 'I'm gonna rock a trash bag today.'
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It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.
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Haters are fans in denial.
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I've gotten so many messages I could even get emotional thinking about it, but I've gotten so many messages from young kids all over the country that my story's resonated with them.
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When you're not hiding anything, it's just very easy to be yourself - shockingly.
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It bothers me so much that people have gone out of their way to make trans people feel less than.
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I'm really go-with-the-flow, but I take things really seriously. At the same time, when things don't go my way, I don't ever freak out. Why? Why freak out?
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When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.
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I feel so honored that I've had the opportunity to share my story with so many people.
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As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.
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I remember when I told my mom that I wanted to come out, and my mom was a little hesitant. She was saying, 'Are you sure? Do you think that might affect your scores?' or, 'Is it something that you think that you need to do?' And I told her, 'I don't care. It's important to me.'
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Being gay is not something that defines me. What defines me is what my mom always taught me: to treat everyone with respect, to always be a hard worker, and to be kind.
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I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they aren't a friend of a gay person but that they think that they're sick.
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I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.
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I looked around and saw my competitors: they're all doing these quads, and at the same time, they're a head shorter than me, they're 10 years younger than me, and they're the size of one of my legs.