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

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.

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

Country music is the peoples music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

At the end of the day, I'm an actor. I'm not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I'm any good, I'll work; if I'm not, I won't.

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.

If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by.

I work every weekend in my district.

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

If you cant celebrate your success appreciate your failure. Since life is all about celebration and appreciation.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.