By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

You always learn from your mistakes.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

I had a perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery. I was very blessed.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.