"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."

"I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else."

"I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show."

"Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure."