My Girlfriend Has Been The Ice.

I Never Had One Day That I Didn't Want To Be On The Ice, Because I Always Had An Objective For That Day. I Had A Rigorous Plan And Schedule In Place That I Had To Adhere To. It Was A Step-by-step Process Of Slowly But Surely Inching Toward The Olympic Games And Using Every Day As A Series Of Goals To Be Accomplished.

We All Naturally Want To Become Successful... We Also Want To Take Shortcuts. And It's Easy To Do So, But You Can Never Take Away The Effort Of Hard Work And Discipline And Sacrifice.

I Wanted To Play Football Or Be A Boxer, But My Dad Didn't Want That Because Of All The Impact. But In 1992 I Was Watching Short Track, And It Was Obscure, But They Looked Like Superheroes In Their Tight Outfits, And I Thought It Was Amazing. I Wanted To Do That. I Made The National Team At 14.

I Think In General, People Look At All Olympic Athletes, Look At All Superstar Athletes, And They Say, "okay, This Guy Doesn't Have Any Insecurities." They're Almost Like These Icons Who - I Don't Know How To Say It, But Like They Can't Make Mistakes. But The Reality Is, And I'll Tell You This Firsthand, A Lot Of Great Athletes Have A Lot Of Insecurities, And They Have A Really Hard Time Dealing With A Lot Of So-called Losing Or However You Want To Classify It.

I Can Look Into Someone's Eyes And Feel Like I Know Her Better, Versus A Phone Call, Where You Can't Get That Same Type Of Emotion. That's Why Text Messaging Gets You In Trouble: You Can't Bond, And Emoticons Explain Only So Much.