To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

Skating is in my heart, not my head

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.