Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

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.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

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

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

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

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