Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

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

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

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.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.