I love being active.

As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.

I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.

I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.

I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can.

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.

I feel so honored that I've had the opportunity to share my story with so many people.

I am from Scranton, PA.

I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!

It's totally crazy! I can't believe all the young kids doing it in competition now. It's pretty unbelievable to have an element variation named after me.

I've been skating since I was 10 years old.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.

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.

My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.

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.

I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.

I don't think he has a real concept of reality. To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he's a devout Christian man is completely contradictory.

Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

What makes America great is that we're all so different.

It's 2018, and being an openly gay man and an athlete, that is part of the face of America now.

Growing up, I really didn't have a lot of role models.

I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I loved the whole practice, and I also loved performing. It was probably the first time I felt really good about myself and that I was good at something, because I always liked being athletic.

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

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.'

It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.

I love to have my own story, my own path, and forge ahead because my career isn't going to be like anyone else's.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

As an audience member, I like to watch what they're doing, and that's one of the reasons I love skating: because it's a performance, and I love to perform. That's my favorite aspect of skating.

Those are the moments athletes live for - we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you're-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.

There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.

There's no such thing as a wardrobe malfunction - only a wardrobe opportunity.

I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.

I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.

I came out seven times in one weekend. I have a flair for the dramatic.

It bothers me so much that people have gone out of their way to make trans people feel less than.

They usually say that after the Olympic Games, somebody's life changes forever, and a lot of times, it's the gold medalist. But I have a feeling that my life has changed forever.

I want to inspire other young kids, no matter what their background is or where they're from or anything like that, that they can go out there and, if you work hard, you can do anything.

I'm representing my country whether they like me or not.

I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.

Nobody loves me as much as I love me, so I guess I'll just be my own valentine.

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.