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

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.

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

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

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