Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

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.

The most creative approach is often the simple approach.

Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble.

When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.