Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

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

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

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

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.

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

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.