In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

I think skating helped me find myself.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

So, I’m a bear, ” she explains, eyeing us all. “Wait? Is Issie something?”“Nope, ” Issie pouts. “All human. All the time.”“The coolest human ever, ” Devyn says, reaching down and ruffling her hair.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

Sweet things happen. They still do.

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

I’m prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses