As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

Skating is in my heart, not my head

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

You can start chasing your dreams.

If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die.

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.