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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.