“Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my sc...” — Mirai Nagasu Quote

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate - especially my dad - he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too.

It was really, really heartbreaking to not be named to the team in Sochi, but some things are just not meant to be. That experience changed me as a skater. I took a step back and decided that some things are not worth accepting. I wanted to be on another Olympic team. I took time to evolve myself as a person and as a skater.

I got to meet Rachel Platten, who sings 'Fight Song,' I love that song.

Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you're good at it, do what I did.

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of the schoolwork done. Just sketches all around. I was always doodling something.