"You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself"

"Most women are not as young as they are painted."

"Nobody ever died of laughter."

"Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth."

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."

"I had my best performance today. It was great and the most important thing for me."

"I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen."

"I'm a bit disappointed in my skating, because I was prepared for this competition. That's competition. It's pressure all the time."

"Maybe somebody is thinking I'm a favorite, but it's the Olympic Games and you never know who can win."

"The other girls are so young, ... They're not our generation."

"I won't think about anything. I am just happy with the medal."

"I like all parts of the music, ... When I was on ice, I felt like I am a flamenco dancer."

"I love this pressure. It is not interesting when nobody skates well. I like it when the atmosphere is really competitive like tonight."

"I felt so bad yesterday. Today I felt better, much more comfortable. You could see it in the practice."

"I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it."

"She's a really, really smart woman. She understands skating, and she understands me. She knows which way to push, which way to rest."

"It was a good performance and I did everything I wanted to do."

"When I see all the small girls and all the experience I have, that explains the difference in the scores."

"It was a good beginning."

"For me this competition is not really important. It is just another step in going to Turin."

"It?s competition. I don?t want to tell you what I?m thinking."

"You will never know what will happen in the competition, but I will try to do it."

"It was a big disappointment. But it's life. It's competition. Things happen. This has happened; there's nothing I can do about it now. I'm happy to have a medal."

"That's competition. It's pressure all the time. You never know what can happen. I'm just happy what I got. There are some girls who came and competed and got 18th and 20th places. I'm happy I have something."

"It's competition. I don't want to tell you what I'm thinking."

"I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to."

"One must dare to be happy."

"We are always the same age inside."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance."

"If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer."

"Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing."

"It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."

"Let me listen to me and not to them."

"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."

"A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing."

"I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich."

"Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?"

"You attract what you need like a lover"

"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts."

"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"You have to know what you want to get it."

"There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance."

"You hate to have the whole season riding on something like that. But welcome to the new NHL. That's got to be a record for the amount of shooters."

"Against a team like Detroit, they'll make you pay when you give up those high-quality scoring chances."

"There are a lot of teams looking for one more save a night. We're one of them."

"I like an even-keel team, a team that doesn't get seduced by any success you have or disabled by any of your disappointments along the way."