The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

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.

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

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 would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.