That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

Peter would not have been successful if God had not helped him

In the long run we are all dead.

Trees don't sneak on you."-Brook Where Small Fish Swim

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The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

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