American Quotes

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

I started skating when I was six years old.

I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.