It bothers me so much that people have gone out of their way to make trans people feel less than.

I came out seven times in one weekend. I have a flair for the dramatic.

I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.

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.

I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.

There's no such thing as a wardrobe malfunction - only a wardrobe opportunity.

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

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.

As an audience member, I like to watch what they're doing, and that's one of the reasons I love skating: because it's a performance, and I love to perform. That's my favorite aspect of skating.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

I love to have my own story, my own path, and forge ahead because my career isn't going to be like anyone else's.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.

It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.

I remember when I told my mom that I wanted to come out, and my mom was a little hesitant. She was saying, 'Are you sure? Do you think that might affect your scores?' or, 'Is it something that you think that you need to do?' And I told her, 'I don't care. It's important to me.'

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I loved the whole practice, and I also loved performing. It was probably the first time I felt really good about myself and that I was good at something, because I always liked being athletic.

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.

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.

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

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

What makes America great is that we're all so different.

Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

I don't think he has a real concept of reality. To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he's a devout Christian man is completely contradictory.

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.