I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World.

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

No, matter how sinful we are there is a way to repent.

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.