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

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.

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.

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

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

It was love. It was lust. It was just between us. The passion, the desire, the fire. The way we held on in so little time and his eyes when he saw me for the first time.

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

While we breathe, we will hope.

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.