I Worked As Hard As

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.

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 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.

If I'm On Skates, I Feel At Home No Matter What I'm Doing. If They Wanted Me To Sing And Dance I Think I Could Do It Just Becausei Was On Skates. When I'm Not On Skates, Though, I Feel Very Strange.

To Be The World's Best, You Have To Beat The World's Best.