After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night!

Ashley Wagner

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I love to win, honestly. ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

Ashley Wagner

honestly should winning

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

Ashley Wagner

ice i-can sweet

I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.

Ashley Wagner

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When Im competing, I need to be strong.

Ashley Wagner

competing strong needs

I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful

Ashley Wagner

beautiful beauty believe

For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

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lots-of-friends gay community

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

Ashley Wagner

skater superstitious

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

Ashley Wagner

olympic-medals accomplished would-be

I love hanging out with friends and family.

Ashley Wagner

hanging-out-with-friends hanging-out family-and-friends

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

Ashley Wagner

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The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

Ashley Wagner

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I havent mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

Ashley Wagner

sitting art

I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Ashley Wagner

good me music girl

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

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stay-focused focused i-can time

I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I'm an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake.

Ashley Wagner

diet day myself girl

You should not be defined by one bad performance.

Ashley Wagner

performance bad you should

I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys.

Ashley Wagner

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I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

Ashley Wagner

pink tomboy just ballet

Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.

Ashley Wagner

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When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

Ashley Wagner

step feel me fighter