What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

I would have quoted my dad who said, 'You're the luckiest kid in the world because you're doing for a living what you did as a kid. You make in a year what I made in my life and, if you let it go to your head I'll kick you with my cowboy boots on.

In the skating world, we were the celebrities, but the show isn't like that. The show is about the [Hollywood] celebrities and their struggle to give up their comfort zones and put it all on the line.