top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction."
Author Name
Personal Development
"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not pay attention to difficulties and life's troubles, you only need to believe."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Life is a journey. Choose your journey."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"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."
Fact
"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
Gold
"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."
Direction
"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."
Money
"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
"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own."
Help
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."
Family
"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
"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
bottom of page