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When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
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I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
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From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
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And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
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I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
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And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
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That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
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Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
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When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
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But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
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