Having the right attitude goes further than grinding yourself into the ground another two hours after skating.

Some of the jumps came back, I had to work at others. I fell a lot. But I knew I could do it. So much of skating is about what you believe you can do.

I almost fell off the elliptical glider. So many emotions, which I had suppressed for so long, hit me. Pain, frustration, sadness n it was very unsettling, very overwhelming.

I was skating for all the wrong reasons. It became a job. The coach-student relationship wasn't clicking the way it used to. It wasn't fun anymore. I was completely burned out. I was just done.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are