Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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

I love being active.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.