I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.

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.

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

You have to have the right mind-set.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport