I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Patience is the best medicine.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.