I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

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.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

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