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

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

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.

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

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 parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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