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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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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."
"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."
"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
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"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own."
"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."
"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."
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
"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."
"My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income."
"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."
"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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