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"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
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"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
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"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."
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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
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"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
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"To shipbrokers, coal was black gold."
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"You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me."
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"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."
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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"
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"I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading."
Love
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
Money
"My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good."
Work
"They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now."
Money
"It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond."
Home
"It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it."
Parenting
"I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world."
Experience
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
Family
"I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards."
People
"Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on."
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