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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."
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"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."
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"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."
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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."
"In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction."
"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."
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
"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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