You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.

Sports and politics don't mix.

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.

Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing, and motion to create a focal point.

I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days well its all right in football when someone scores a goal but not when youre playing darts.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

I move my face so much because I'm very much expressive. I'm told a lot, 'Stop moving your face'. Because on camera, the tiniest movement tells so much, and it looks really hammy.

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you.

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

My responsibility is to speak out on my own convictions.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

A best friend is like a four leaf clover hard to find and lucky to have.

I've really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can't even express to you how happy it has made me.

That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.