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

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

I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.

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

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.

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.

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.