 The only disability in life is a bad attitude. |
| I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. |
| 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. |
| From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition. |
| I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. |
| But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know. |
