When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.