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" 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! "

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" If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical. "

" My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation. "

" 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. "

" I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment. "

" My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. "

" I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in. "

" The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well. "

" 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. "

" I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. "

" My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good. "

" 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. "

" I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent. "

" 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. "

" My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. "

" I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move. "

" Money is evil. "

" I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. "

" My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight. "

" 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. "

" One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality. "

" I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through. "

" I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. "

" 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. "

" I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you. "

" My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. "