The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.

If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.

In a moment everything could suddenly change, but God and His promises remain the same.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.