 I begged my mom to let me start skating. |
| What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life. |
| Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research. |
| The Olympics: not one of my better memories. |
| For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor. |
| I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals. |
| I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. |
| My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal. |
| I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine. |
| I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus. |
| So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed. |
| I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit. |
| Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned. |
| I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. |
