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.

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

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

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

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

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.