Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.
“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.”
“I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.”