Bonnie Blair Quotations

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

I don't fear anything.

Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.

You have to have the right mind-set.

Winning doesn't always mean being first,

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

I was a little surprised there weren't more people in there, it being the men's 500. Usually, the men's 500 is a packed house.

Our goal was to come back and win at least 12 medals in Turin. All the skaters who won medals are back and we've got some great athletes added on to that.

Our goal was to come back and win at least 12 medals in Turin, ... All the skaters who won medals are back and we've got some great athletes added on to that.

I was too embarrassed to say anything to my doctor or even to my husband. I got the courage to talk to my doctor and realized I was experiencing a very real medical problem that happens to many people and is nothing to be ashamed of.

I think she's got a great shot to probably not only medal in the 1,000 and the 1,500, but I think even an outside shot in the 500.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

When I went on my first run about two months after having my first child in 1998, I didn't get more than half a block before realizing that my shorts were soaked. I was very upset. As an athlete, I was used to being active and not having anything slow me down. Now I had to worry about leaking, while trying to return to the active lifestyle I was used to.

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After trying the pelvic floor exercises and other interventions, I simply wasn't gaining ground. My obstetrician referred me to Dr. Miller, who performs a surgery called tension-free vaginal tape (TVT). I underwent the procedure over a year ago and have been symptom-free ever since.

I'm not allowed to talk about him. His mother sent me an e-mail and told me not to talk about him. So I can't talk about him.

I have no idea. If you can figure it out, let me know. I've never said a bad word about him. Joey Cheek was great.

Chad and Joey have opened up a whole new group of people to enjoy what I think is a pretty neat sport.