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

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.

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

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

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