I got to meet Rachel Platten, who sings 'Fight Song,' I love that song.

In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.

Just really believe in yourself and stay true to yourself.

I really believe in myself.

When someone really, truly believes in themselves, magic happens.

Getting to the Olympics was the hard part.

Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me up in order to get me ready for skating before school.

When I come home from training, my attention immediately has to focus on my school courses, which helps keep the stress level balanced. I mostly balance both by drinking a lot of coffee and making sure I time manage well, which doesn't happen all the time, especially during finals week.

I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big deal.

I fall a lot during training.

I'm very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I've eaten sea urchin and that shebang.

Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they're an athlete or not.

Maybe Asians are switching from studying to sports.

Whenever Michelle Kwan texts me or mentions my name, I'm like, 'Wow.' I still can't believe that this is someone who I grew up looking up to, and they know my name.

I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.

I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.

It was really, really heartbreaking to not be named to the team in Sochi, but some things are just not meant to be. That experience changed me as a skater. I took a step back and decided that some things are not worth accepting. I wanted to be on another Olympic team. I took time to evolve myself as a person and as a skater.

I don't even remember how many times I've sprained my ankle. I've had stress fractures galore and torn my PCL. You just take a little time off if you have the time, and if not, you keep training until you can take the time off.

My mom is really dedicated to me. She drives me to school and skating, wakes up for me, and I'm just really appreciative.

I have always believed that I've been an amazing skater regardless of what the results say.

A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn't strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd!

Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

I'm that person: I will literally do everything to not get out of bed, so I have alarms set for every 15 minutes.

I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink.