Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it.
— Nathan Chen
I can't decide the results, but I can still put my best foot forward and try the best I can.
I hate spiders; I'm terrified of spiders.
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.
I would love to be working in a hospital or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals.
Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.
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 really like to bike outdoors and love the weight-based workouts that I do. I am not the biggest fan of other cardio-based workouts. Off-season cardio sessions are pretty grueling.
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 did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.
I always carry my phone with me. I always have a computer on me.
I want to be a full-package skater.
I tend to be a little bit more quiet and just to myself. I'm a little bit more introverted than extroverted.
Really, I'm just a normal kid.
Like my parents taught me, never give up, and always love what you do.
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.
The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.
Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps.
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.
Emma Watson definitely is my celebrity crush. I love 'Harry Potter.' Plus, she's gorgeous, which really helps.
I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.
Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.
My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me.
That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.
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.
Team U.S.A. is awesome.
I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.
I like biology a lot.
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.
In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say.
There's always things that I can improve on.
You have to have passion for what you do, or else it's difficult when the going gets tough.
My family and parents were very influential in my skating career.
It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.
These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess.
Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump.
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 celebrate my hardworking parents and all the opportunities they gave me.
There are always benefits and good things, bad things that come out of every performance.
As a family, we are all intrinsically motivated.
I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.
I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.
We were all just taught to work as hard as we could, use these opportunities to advance, and just really appreciate all that we had.
I really enjoy traveling to... I went to Spain. That was really cool. Japan was really cool. France was really cool.
I genuinely dislike sequins.
I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.
My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.
Regardless of what I do, no matter how good it is, it's never, in my mind, 'flawless.'
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.
I have a very close family. I have four older siblings: two brothers and two sisters.
