Apolo: My favorite color depends on what kind of mood I'm in.
Apolo: (telling what his name means) 'AP' means to lead and the 'LO' mean like away from. and uh it's kinda ironic being in speedskating, and my dad gave me the name.
Apolo: I needed a good break since I've been training continually for four years. But usually what I balance is...it's a fine line between how much you can do and how much time you gotta take off because it's my body and I have it to say how much I gotta do.
Apolo: I have six international World Cups a year. So the fun never stops for me.
Apolo: It is very hard to have a serious relationship right now because I travel so much and my schedule is crazy. Most of my past relationships have been somewhat out of the ordinary.
Apolo: It's strange how a single, important moment in one person's life might not even be memorable to another.
Apolo: I'm different person when I step on the ice...or onto the dance floor.
Apolo: If you go over to Asia and you say 'team skating' they'll have no idea what you are talking about. They'll be like, 'oh that's illegal, oh really that's interesting.' It's hard, very hard. Two or three (athletes) of any of the same country in any race is hard. I'll have to overcome that and that's a big challenge.
Apolo wrote an autobiography called "A Journey".
Apolo was the first American to take the men's title in speed skating.
Apolo's favorite book is "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman.
Apolo often wears a tattered old t-shirt at competitions that reads, "No pain, no gain." "This has a lot of blood, sweat and tears," he said of the shirt.
Apolo's father is Yuki Ohno. He raised Apolo by himself and owns a Seattle hair salon called Yuki's Diffusion.
Besides short track, Apolo also enjoys badminton, basketball and inline skating.
Apolo stands at 5'8" and weighs 165 pounds.
He won a gold medal in the 500 Meter race in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
His father is Japanese.
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