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.

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

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