If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

Better to separate than never to marry.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

When you lay down your life for what you are after you've died, you're clean.

Quality control starts and ends with training.

Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.