I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

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

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

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.

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

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

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.