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.

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

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

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 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.

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.