I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

I’m already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.

I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling.

I have two hands. I can hold two medals.

Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you

Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

Wherever negative thoughts go, negative feelings always follow.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.

There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.