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"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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"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
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"I think we all have had better days in competition."
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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."
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"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."
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"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
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"That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances."
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"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
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"The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated."
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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."
Fact
"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
Gold
"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
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
Money
"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."
Competition
"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own."
Help
"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
"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
"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."
Family
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