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

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

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

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

A bad attitude is the only true handicap.

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.