Athlete

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

A lot of people who watch figure skaters want us to look like pretty princesses. I want people to see the athlete, and I want to look like a woman among girls.

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

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

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.

Seabeck is slow to change.

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

I am going to get involved with giving back to military families.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days.

In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.'

My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.

I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.

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.