I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

- Eric Heiden

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

- Eric Heiden

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

- Eric Heiden

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

- Eric Heiden

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

- Eric Heiden

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

- Eric Heiden

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

- Eric Heiden

We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Champions…

- Eric Heiden

How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain shower…

- Eric Heiden