You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

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!

To submit, to surrender, to seek, that is all there is.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

First comes the day, then the seconds of the event, then the days which become weeks, then the months, then the years.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.