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

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.

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.

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.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

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