I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

Greatness is not greater than you, you have total control over greatness.

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.