I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!