I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in …

- Sarah Hughes

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

- Sarah Hughes

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

- Sarah Hughes

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and …

- Sarah Hughes

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

- Sarah Hughes