I think I've shown the world I'm a fierce competitor, yes. But I've also shown them that I'm a fierce human being.

You have a personality like mine, it's for everybody... It's not just for some group of people.

I'm like a witch! You can't kill me!

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

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.

Chris Martin has this voice that resonates through a whole arena.

I'm confident in who I and what I'm doing.

I can't explain witchcraft.

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.

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?

If I forgot to put something on, and I have to wear a trash bag, I'm just like, 'I'm gonna rock a trash bag today.'

I usually finish things in the last second. But I think, as I've gotten older, I don't worry about it, and I just rock it.

I would say that I'm a hot mess all the time.

Honestly, it's really fun to be yourself. It's really fun to be me.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

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

It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.

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

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.

When you're not hiding anything, it's just very easy to be yourself - shockingly.

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.

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.'

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.

For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted.

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.

As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!

All the sacrifices my mom and family had made had been worth it.

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

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.

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.

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.

I love being active.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 feel so honored that I've had the opportunity to share my story with so many people.

I am from Scranton, PA.

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

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.

I've been skating since I was 10 years old.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.

When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.

My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.

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.