I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Sharing one umbrella, We have to hold each other, Round the waist to keep together, You ask me why I'm smiling-It's because I'm thinking, I want it to rain forever.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara

At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.