I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

Skating is in my heart, not my head

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

We don't have to surrender our souls or our compassion.

Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.