I love to win, honestly. ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it. Ashley Wagner More Quotes by Ashley Wagner More Quotes From Ashley Wagner 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 careers couple past 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. Ashley Wagner 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 young-age age young 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 competition jumping opportunity 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. Ashley Wagner 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 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 amazing thought training night 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 help like think love 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 rest win myself sleep 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
