I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

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.

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

It doesn't matter how many people you have on social networking sites. What matters is how you benefited them and how you benefited from them

I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I’d date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn’t what I want.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.