Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.