Top 60 Nathan Chen Quotes

A lot of the things I do outside the rink are just to relax and recover. We spend so much time at the rink, so it’s nice to decompress a little.

An artistic standpoint – I’ve watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find meaning in their movement.

To have all of these jumps in my arsenal is very beneficial. I can always alter my program so I can either play it safe, or I can play it risky with high reward. It depends on what I feel like I need that day.

Every day’s a new day.

It’s reassuring knowing that people are supporting me and want to know more about me. It comes with being the national champion and making the Olympic team. I think that it’s telling me I’m on the right path.

Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing.

I always carry my phone with me. I always have a computer on me.

Skating is a sport that I found a lot of interest in from a very, very young age. Ultimately, I think that being on the ice, being in the cold, and trying things and challenging myself in different ways is something that made me really interested in skating.

There are always benefits and good things, bad things that come out of every performance.

As a family, we are all intrinsically motivated.

Honestly, I am human. I make mistakes.

These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it’s kind of risk or reward, I guess.

I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.

I do very scientific-based training. However, for skating, that’s a little bit out of the ordinary. Many skaters base their off-ice training around plyometrics, whereas mine is very strength- and power-based.

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

Team U.S.A. is awesome.

Every day is a new day, and ultimately, I have to figure out what works each day.

There’s a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there.

I can’t decide the results, but I can still put my best foot forward and try the best I can.

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.

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.

Personally, I feel like there should be some sort of cap on the quads, but we should still be pushing it to a certain number.

I start in the morning with something like a breakfast burrito and a smoothie, something that gives me enough protein and carbs to start my day.

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.

Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that’s what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.

It’s something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it’s the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it’s not.

Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.

I love jumping. I have always loved jumping. I love watching jumps. I love doing jumps.

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

I don’t think the demographic for skating really entails a lot of basketball watching.

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

Maybe it’s innate: I have a body built to jump.

Netflix isn’t available internationally all the time, but the NBA is. It’s nice to have something that feels like home.

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

Half of learning a new element is just getting over the fear of doing it. Once you mentally prepare yourself enough to do the jump, that is really half the battle.

I want to be a full-package skater.

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.

Being able to land all the quads, especially doing them all in one program, is mentally huge.

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

Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.

Really, I’m just a normal kid.

That’s something I’m actually very interested in doing, helping young skaters.

Throughout the day, I’ll snack a lot. I always have some breakfast cereal, like Kellogg’s cereal, something on hand, so that I can just quickly get some carbs in.

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.

I began skating in the official practice venue of the 2002 Games. It was a huge Olympic atmosphere with Apollo Ohno sitting on the wall every day when I walked into the rink. That was really cool and very inspiring to see.

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn’t feel it at all.

When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.

I’ve been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps.

My skating career won’t last forever.

There’s always things that I can improve on.

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.

I celebrate my hardworking parents and all the opportunities they gave me.

It’s crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.

I have my own life to live.

I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes.

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don’t know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.

Once I landed the triple Salchow, I put it in the program. First landed triple toe, straight into the program. That’s what I did with my quad suite.

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.

I’ve skated after Yuzu a handful of times. The only thing I can take away from it is to be prepared for the Pooh-bears to be raining down from the audience.

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.