The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

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.

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

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

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

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 didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.