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

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.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

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.

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

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.