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"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

"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."
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