Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Nathan Chen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Nathan Chen.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Nathan Chen is an American figure skater. He is the 2022 Olympic champion, a three-time World champion, the 2017 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final champion, a ten-time Grand Prix medalist, and a six-time U.S. national champion (2017–22). At the junior level, Chen is the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, 2014 World Junior bronze medalist, and a six-time Junior Grand Prix medalist. Chen also helped the U.S. Olympic team win the bronze medal in the 2018 team event, and the silver medal in the 2022 team event.

American - Athlete | Born: May 5, 1999

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It's been a dream of mine to be selected on the U.S. Olympic team as long as I can remember.

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I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

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

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I have my own life to live.

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

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Every day's a new day.

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I've always had Russian coaches.

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I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

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

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I really enjoy traveling to... I went to Spain. That was really cool. Japan was really cool. France was really cool.

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

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Honestly, I am human. I make mistakes.

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Really, I'm just a normal kid.

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As a family, we are all intrinsically motivated.

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

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You have to have passion for what you do, or else it's difficult when the going gets tough.

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

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I want to be a full-package skater.

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

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Like my parents taught me, never give up, and always love what you do.

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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.

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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.

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I genuinely dislike sequins.

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

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Emma Watson definitely is my celebrity crush. I love 'Harry Potter.' Plus, she's gorgeous, which really helps.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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I just like to keep pushing myself and the sport.

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I hate spiders; I'm terrified of spiders.

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I tend to be a little bit more quiet and just to myself. I'm a little bit more introverted than extroverted.

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

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

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I would love to be working in a hospital or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals.

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I have a very close family. I have four older siblings: two brothers and two sisters.

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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.

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Team U.S.A. is awesome.

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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.

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My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.

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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.

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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.

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Regardless of what I do, no matter how good it is, it's never, in my mind, 'flawless.'

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I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.

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There's always things that I can improve on.

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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.

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There are always times when you don't want to go to the rink, or you don't want to do all the things you're supposed to do. Sometimes you're exhausted, or it's been a long week, but I always remind myself that this is my Olympic dream and the passion, because I love the sport very much.

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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.

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

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

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I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.

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I like biology a lot.

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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.

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