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.

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.

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

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.

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