Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same 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.
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.
I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.
Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.
When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.
I begged my mom to let me start skating.
You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.
Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.
I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
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.
L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.
Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.
This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.
When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he's just such a nice guy. Tony's an awesome guy too, but back then, he was a real aggressive kid and they were in such a different place. Stacy was so sensitive and at the same time so competitive when it came to his skating.
I think skating helped me find myself.
All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.
I started skating when I was six years old.