If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

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

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.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.