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.

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 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.

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.

Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.