Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Rippon
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Adam Rippon.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Honestly, it's really fun to be yourself. It's really fun to be me.
You have a personality like mine, it's for everybody... It's not just for some group of people.
I am from Scranton, PA.
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.
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.
I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.
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'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!
1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.
All the sacrifices my mom and family had made had been worth it.
It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.
I was living in my coach's basement.
I personally don't have anything to say to Mike Pence. I'm very lucky because legislation that he's pushed hasn't affected my life at all. I spoke out because there are people out there whose lives have been affected by change that he's tried to make.
Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.
Being gay is not something that defines me. What defines me is what my mom always taught me: to treat everyone with respect, to always be a hard worker, and to be kind.
I can't tone it down. I'm being me, and I'm being myself, and I'd be doing myself an injustice, and I'd be doing an injustice to those kids who don't feel like they're comfortable to be themselves.
I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.
As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.
I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.
Nobody loves me as much as I love me, so I guess I'll just be my own valentine.
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 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.
As an athlete, I know that I'm such a perfectionist that I'll want to go out and keep working on something over and over until it's perfect. Part of growing up is learning to take a step back.
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.
There's no such thing as a wardrobe malfunction - only a wardrobe opportunity.
I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.
I would say that I'm a hot mess all the time.
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.'
I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.
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.
It's totally crazy! I can't believe all the young kids doing it in competition now. It's pretty unbelievable to have an element variation named after me.
If you ever have the option, come to the Olympics. It's, like, a fun time.
For such a long time in my life, I didn't trust my own voice at all. I always tried to do what other people wanted.
I'm confident in who I and what I'm doing.
Sometimes I'll be listening to NPR at the gym, and I'll hear them say, 'Oh, Donald Trump did this today.' And I'm like, 'What?' All of a sudden, I have more energy than if I drank an espresso.
I've been skating since I was 10 years old.
I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.
I'm proud of a lot of things I've said on Twitter.
I love being active.
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.
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.
My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.
I feel so honored that I've had the opportunity to share my story with so many people.
I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.
I love being on Twitter and interacting with different people. Also, I very dangerously love to go shopping online!
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 can't explain witchcraft.
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.
As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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.
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.
When you're not hiding anything, it's just very easy to be yourself - shockingly.
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?
Chris Martin has this voice that resonates through a whole arena.
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.
Haters are fans in denial.
I'm like a witch! You can't kill me!
I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can.
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.
When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.
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