My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

I think skating helped me find myself.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

We are lucky when we are helped while we lose our balance

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.

I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain