18 Sensational Selected Quotes From Adam Rippon

18 Sensational Selected Quotes From Adam Rippone

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.

— Adam Rippon

Those are the moments athletes live for - we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you're-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.

— Adam Rippon

There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.

— Adam Rippon

I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.

— Adam Rippon

I came out seven times in one weekend. I have a flair for the dramatic.

— Adam Rippon

It bothers me so much that people have gone out of their way to make trans people feel less than.

— Adam Rippon

They usually say that after the Olympic Games, somebody's life changes forever, and a lot of times, it's the gold medalist. But I have a feeling that my life has changed forever.

— Adam Rippon

I want to inspire other young kids, no matter what their background is or where they're from or anything like that, that they can go out there and, if you work hard, you can do anything.

— Adam Rippon

I'm representing my country whether they like me or not.

— Adam Rippon

I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.

— Adam Rippon

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

— Adam Rippon

I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they aren't a friend of a gay person but that they think that they're sick.

— Adam Rippon

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.

— Adam Rippon

Sometimes I might meet people, and they might just not like me, not want to get to know me. And that's OK. They're boring as hell anyway.

— Adam Rippon

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.'

— Adam Rippon

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.

— Adam Rippon

I don't find it distracting to be me.

— Adam Rippon

I am usually wearing some sort of see-through when I am competing.

— Adam Rippon

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