I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

You always learn from your mistakes.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Tears wash away the soot of indifference.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

You are a physical extension of pure positive energy. Therefore, there is nothing more important than that you feel good.

Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

I want a girl when I want a girl, and when I don't want a girl, I want a girl who understands that

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.