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"I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it."
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"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."
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"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."
"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."
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"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."
"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
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