Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the cost of what it will cost you.

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.