My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

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My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

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

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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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There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

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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.

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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

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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.

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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.

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