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"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."
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"If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination."
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"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"
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"The life of people who do not know their destiny becomes an infinite chain of activities that in fact do not actually mean anything for their success."
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"Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling."
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"You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."
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"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."
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"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."
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"Whatever I 'align'' myself with are the very things that will create a 'line' into my future."
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"We must be focused on the goal that God has revealed to us."
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"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."
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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."
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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."
Family
"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
"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."
Time
"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
"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."
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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."
Home
"It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it."
Parenting
"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."
Money
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