You have to have the right mind-set.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

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.

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.

You have to have the right mind-set.

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