I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

Life without risk is not worth living.

You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew.