My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

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.

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

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.