I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!
As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark
The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.
We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.
When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
The ear writes my poems, not the mind.