Quotes from Adam Rippon

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.

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

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.

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

I'm proud of a lot of things I've said on Twitter.

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

I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Sometimes I might meet people, and they might just not like me, not want to get to know me. And that's OK. They're boring as hell anyway.

I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

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.

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

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

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'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.

If you ever have the option, come to the Olympics. It's, like, a fun time.

I love being active.

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