Olympics Quotes by Mirai Nagasu

I don't necessarily always feel happy when I'm skating.

— Mirai Nagasu

Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

— Mirai Nagasu

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

— Mirai Nagasu

I've dreamed about going to the Olympics ever since I was young.

— Mirai Nagasu

Getting to the Olympics was the hard part.

— Mirai Nagasu

It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of…

— Mirai Nagasu

Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.

— Mirai Nagasu

Something that I saw in Sochi that I didn't get the opportunity to have in Vancouver was the team holding hands with…

— Mirai Nagasu

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

— Mirai Nagasu

My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a…

— Mirai Nagasu

My parents always tell me that they never would have let me start if they had known how expensive and difficult figure…

— Mirai Nagasu

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

— Mirai Nagasu

I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big…

— Mirai Nagasu

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm…

— Mirai Nagasu

My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in…

— Mirai Nagasu

Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain,…

— Mirai Nagasu

Being 16 is such a great age because I'm still really young, and I'll still have a lot of chances. But the…

— Mirai Nagasu

A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn't strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program…

— Mirai Nagasu

I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way…

— Mirai Nagasu

It was really, really heartbreaking to not be named to the team in Sochi, but some things are just not meant to…

— Mirai Nagasu

There are moments when I think I'm not very smart and not very pretty, and skating is the only thing that stands…

— Mirai Nagasu

I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can…

— Mirai Nagasu

My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them…

— Mirai Nagasu