The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.