Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

You can endure all things by grace.

I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?

Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins

Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.