Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

We can accomplish a lot with prayer and fasting.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

Try not to catch a girl when she's not in a great mood, tired or distracted.

Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.