I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

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

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.

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

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.