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.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.

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

Memories just get richer with time.

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