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"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself."
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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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"I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine."
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"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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"When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime."
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"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."
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"Don't dim the light in you. Make your corner bright. Fight a good fight with all your might. Wake up and dare to win, never fear because of what others might say. You'll overcome!"
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"As I embarked on; what was to be the greatest adventure of my life; critics appeared before me. ' you can't, you won't, what if?' Noise filled the air with meaningless words as they confessed their hidden fears, with opinionations of my path. They saw me as crazy, but only those whom were yet to understand themselves."
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"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."
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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
"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."
Adversity
"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."
Competition
"Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges."
Sports
"So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well."
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"Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody."
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"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."
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"Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart."
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"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
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