We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

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.

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.

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

With enough hope, you can set a fire to find the way out of the darkness.

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

I've definitely always wanted to be the guy they tell, 'Here's the ball. Go do it.'

If [Donald Trump] is got a program and an agenda and an infrastructure and all of that that he's going to do, let him come forward.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.