"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."

Adversity, Perseverance, Self, Value

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"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."

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"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."

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"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."

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"But hey, what's life without a little adversity?'That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us."

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"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."

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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."

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"I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it."

People

"I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus."

Experience

"What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating."

Friendship

"Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage."

People

"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."

Want

"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."

Competition

"And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well."

Attention

"But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know."

Thought

"I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have."

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"Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance."

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