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

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

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.

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

You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.