Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

What’s the point of doing anything if it’s easy? It’s so much more valuable when a challenge has to be overcome.

I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don’t really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don’t take it quite as well.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it’s just something that happened, you know.

Rationality is not one of this industry’s attributes.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don’t want to get a bad review.

The Olympics in ’80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn’t pick me to play baseball.

Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.