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

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.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up."