Ashley Wagner

Seabeck is slow to change. ”

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it. ”

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie. ”

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. ”

After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night! ”

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. ”

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes. ”

I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends. ”

I'm a strong-headed person, and you can always tell how I'm feeling in that moment. ”

I always loved Michelle Kwan's outfits. Most of them were designed by Vera Wang, and they're just so simple, but the fabric that they used and the way that it was sewn together look so elegant and rich. You could tell that time had been put into it. It wasn't just another spandex, stucco-covered costume. ”