I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World.

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual.

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

Life happens. Love happens. You gotta take some chances.

We are what our thoughts have made us

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?