It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.