It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.

You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.

Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.