I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

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.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

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

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

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