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

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.

A bad attitude is the only true handicap.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

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