Quotes by Adam Rippon - Page 2

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.
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Brian
Arm
Olympic
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I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.
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Me People Important
Interact
Interview
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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.
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Broke
Nutrients
Stress
Foot
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I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.
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Just One
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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.
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Believe Me Important
Stand Up
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Representing the U.S.A. is one of the greatest honors of my life, and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.
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Authentic Self
Representing
Authentic
Honors
Sweeter
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I don't want my Olympic experience to be about Mike Pence. You know, I want it to be about my amazing skating and being America's sweetheart.
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Mike
Sweetheart
Olympic
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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.
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Breathless
Exhilarating
Athletes
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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.
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Unbelievable
Variation
Named
Element
Young Kids
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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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Freak
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When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.
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Yoga
Candle
Session
Love Home Music
Cycle
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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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Respect
Be Kind
Hard Worker
Taught
Mom Always Me
Worker
Treat
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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.
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Gold
Olympic Games
Life My Life Gold
Life Changes
Olympic
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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.
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Being Myself
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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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Messages
Young Kids
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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.
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Inspire
Work Hard
Young Kids
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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.
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Athlete
Olympic
Believe Important Stand
Platform
Stand Up
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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.
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Contradictory
Mike
Devout
Donald
Donald Trump
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I remember seeing people who I thought were so confident and exuberant. I remember being young and watching Oprah and being like, 'Damn. That lady is so confident. She can talk to anybody.'
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Damn
Exuberant
Lady
Oprah
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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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Absolutely Not
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As an athlete, I know that I'm such a perfectionist that I'll want to go out and keep working on something over and over until it's perfect. Part of growing up is learning to take a step back.
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Athlete
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Sometimes I'll be listening to NPR at the gym, and I'll hear them say, 'Oh, Donald Trump did this today.' And I'm like, 'What?' All of a sudden, I have more energy than if I drank an espresso.
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Drank
Gym
Npr
Donald
Donald Trump
Sudden
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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.
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Aspect
Audience Member
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I always said that if I had the platform and the opportunity to share my story and make it easier for others, I would - so that, in a way, I can be the role model that I was looking for as a kid.
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Platform
Role Model
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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.
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Active
Skating
Time Music Always
Time Music Together
Rink
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I can't tone it down. I'm being me, and I'm being myself, and I'd be doing myself an injustice, and I'd be doing an injustice to those kids who don't feel like they're comfortable to be themselves.
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Being Myself
Injustice
Tone
Myself Me Feel
Myself Me Being Myself
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I think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.
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Persona
People Anything American
American People
Embody
Perceived
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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.
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Competitors
Legs
Time Me Doing
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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.
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Unabashedly
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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.
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Athlete
Olympic
Platform
So Many People
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I personally don't have anything to say to Mike Pence. I'm very lucky because legislation that he's pushed hasn't affected my life at all. I spoke out because there are people out there whose lives have been affected by change that he's tried to make.
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Legislation
Mike
Life Change My Life
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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.
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Games
Inspired
Late
Night
Olympic Games
Paper
Remember
Skating
Wanted
Mom Me Remember
Mom Me Night
Compete
Stay
Watch
Medals
Michelle
Olympic
Start
Wore
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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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Hesitant
Remember When
Mom Your Me
Mom Me Remember
Affect
Scores
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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.
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Figure Skating
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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.
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Home
Atlanta
Games
Olympics
Remember
Representing
Seeing
Wanted
Athletes
Bringing
Watch
Earliest
Saw
Medals
Memory
Podium
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First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.
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Adam
Athlete
Easier
Fine
Olympian
Foremost
Just Be
Young Kids
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