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

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.