I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.

I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States.

Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.

I'm a big eater.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

There's a lot of emotions that always come out after a skate of a lifetime. I always start crying because there is so much buildup to that competition.

To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Skating is in my heart, not my head.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.

The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.