I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
Life
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At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
Wisdom
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
Education
It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.
Wisdom
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
Success
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
Wisdom
I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
Wisdom
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
Success
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.
Wisdom
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
Wisdom
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.
Wisdom
Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
Life
I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.
Happiness
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.
Education
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
Wisdom
My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
Wisdom
Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.
Wisdom
I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
Wisdom
I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.
Wisdom
I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
Wisdom
I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!
Wisdom
I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.
Love
I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.
Success
If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.
Wisdom
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