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

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.