When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want