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

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.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

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

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

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.

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.