When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

Our sincere tears can touch our sinless saviour, to change our sinful life.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!

Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.