A biography for Nathan Chenhasn’t been written yet.
“Being able to land all the quads, especially doing them all in one program, is mentally huge.”
“I have my own life to live.”
“I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.”
“My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.”
“I've skated after Yuzu a handful of times. The only thing I can take away from it is to be prepared for the Pooh-bears to be raining down from the audience.”
“That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.”
“I never got to go to prom or homecoming or a lot of the typical teenage stuff. But, if you think about it, I've gotten to go and meet different people and travel all over the world.”
“I always carry my phone with me. I always have a computer on me.”
“I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.”
“My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.”
“I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.”
“We were all just taught to work as hard as we could, use these opportunities to advance, and just really appreciate all that we had.”
“My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.”
“Regardless of what I do, no matter how good it is, it's never, in my mind, 'flawless.'”
“Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump.”
“Emma Watson definitely is my celebrity crush. I love 'Harry Potter.' Plus, she's gorgeous, which really helps.”
“I tend to be a little bit more quiet and just to myself. I'm a little bit more introverted than extroverted.”
“My skating career won't last forever.”
“I've always had Russian coaches.”
“I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes.”