Nathan Chen Quotes

Nathan Chen

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 5, 1999

I want to get another Olympic medal outside the team event.

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I genuinely dislike sequins.

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I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.

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You have to have passion for what you do, or else it's difficult when the going gets tough.

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If it's time to indulge, I love desserts, especially Hershey's chocolate. I also love sushi and Japanese food. Food is my favorite in general.

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As a kid growing up, I didn't want to tell any of my classmates I did figure-skating because I knew they'd be like, 'Oh, you're a skater, you're gay, blah blah blah.' So I kept it to myself. Once I started getting to more of an elite level, I didn't really care what people thought, though.

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I never got to go to prom or homecoming or a lot of the typical teenage stuff. But, if you think about it, I've gotten to go and meet different people and travel all over the world.

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I tend to be a little bit more quiet and just to myself. I'm a little bit more introverted than extroverted.

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It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

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The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.

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My family and parents were very influential in my skating career.

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I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.

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My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.

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Really, I'm just a normal kid.

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My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.

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In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say.

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I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

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It's like you get a high off the jumps, and you crave it, and you want to do it again and again and again.

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I want to be a full-package skater.

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I really enjoy traveling to... I went to Spain. That was really cool. Japan was really cool. France was really cool.

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