Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

I'm so proud of how well Canada did at the Games here. It think we're going to do even better in 2010.

We're all doing it for the love of the sport. We want to make Canada proud. I'm so fortunate to skate in a country like Canada.

I'm sorry I'm so pathetic, " he thought, and then realized he had also said it.Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach.Can I tell you a se

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

Well, I'm an uncle now ... don't know if I'm a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil.

[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

Whether it's difficult or not, there will be a few people who are outstanding, who will rise above the rest.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live