Ashley Wagner Quotes

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Ashley Wagner

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 16, 1991

I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.

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I hate doing Tabatas - you do whatever you want at high intensity for 20 seconds, and then get a 10 second break and you repeat that for 8 minutes. So you can do jumping jacks for 20 seconds, you can do sprints for 20 seconds, etc. It's supposed to help you get your endurance up really fast.

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I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys.

Ashley Wagner

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.

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Seabeck is slow to change.

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I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

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I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

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I am going to get involved with giving back to military families.

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In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

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Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

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I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

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I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

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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!

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Skaters are infamously superstitious.

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

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

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People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.

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I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days.

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I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.

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When I'm competing, I need to be strong.

Ashley Wagner