Quotes from Adam Rippon

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!

It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

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

I know what it's like to be young and to feel like you don't belong.

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 think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.

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

You have a personality like mine, it's for everybody... It's not just for some group of people.

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

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.

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

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.

I remember seeing people who I thought were so confident and exuberant. I remember being young and watching Oprah and being like, 'Damn. That lady is so confident. She can talk to anybody.'

I always said that if I had the platform and the opportunity to share my story and make it easier for others, I would - so that, in a way, I can be the role model that I was looking for as a kid.

I was living in my coach's basement.

It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.

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

Sometimes when you're not confident in yourself, to see someone who doesn't care - and I don't care anymore. I really don't care - it gives you that confidence.

I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.

Representing the U.S.A. is one of the greatest honors of my life, and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.

I'm not like a gay icon or America's gay sweetheart. I'm just America's sweetheart, and I'm just an icon.

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.

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.'