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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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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."
"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."
"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."
"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."
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"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own."
"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."
"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
"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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