Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Everything looks so easy only because we are in shape.
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
First you have to be a great athlete, and then you can focus on the artistry.
For exhibitions, watching Kurt Browning makes me smile. I always think: Oh, my God, that guy is so handsome and sexy on the ice.
Going into the 1994 Olympics I knew that I had no chance to win.
I had my two gold medals already, so for me it was a different reason.
I have to fight for every hour I have and then I feel more and more under pressure when I skate.
I learned not to depend on other people.
I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
I remember the first competition I did was on my seventh birthday. I won. It was quite a nice present to give myself.
I see myself more as the emotional announcer.
I stand where the first judge is sitting. I am very close to the ice so I have a different view than the hosts in the booth. I can offer something different because I can get a sense of the speed. I can even smell the fear they have. I like that position.
I try to eat healthy, with vegetables and pasta.
I try to get nine hours of sleep.
I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
I'd like to have kids, but I don't think the moment is right.
I've had a lot of happy days in my life.
If I perform, I want to deliver the best I have.
It didn't matter; you couldn't buy anything in East Germany anyway.
It tells you have to work hard to earn your success. If you are willing to do that and you have passion for it, you can achieve something wonderful.
It's difficult to juggle everything, but I enjoy the variety of work I have. But I wish I would have a little more time for skating.
It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
Maybe the guys are not as strong, but you have some great pairs coming up. In the past, the pairs were weaker. Sometimes there isn't an explanation.
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
Sometimes I'll have a glass of red wine or piece of chocolate and think, Fine, I was never a skinny skater. I was always more womanly.
The idea of marriage, which is eternal, I'm afraid of. I've seen so many things that haven't been forever.
The meaning of the Olympics wasn't clear until I traveled throughout the United States. That kind of stardom wasn't supported in East Germany.
The sports system would help you deliver your best effort.
Training seven hours a day, you give up a lot of things, but I had fun.
Unconsciously, I probably am a big flirt. Consciously, I don't realize I'm flirting that much.
We're all hard working women. It's more a playful diva. But if it comes to being in control of things and making sure that I do a good job and having a good team around me so I can deliver something good.
Well, I think a diva is something different these days. Usually diva comes from the opera where it's more about really being a diva. Being a diva in my sport maybe is something else.
Whatever has to get done, you don't bail out in the middle.
When I am home in Berlin, I train four hours a day.
When I am producing a show like Divas on Ice, I rehearse six to eight hours a day.
When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
When I traveled somebody always followed me. People pretended to be my friends, and I'd tell them things about my private life: It all ended up in the files. I saw love letters copied in my files, and I felt totally betrayed.
When I was a teenager I would secretly go into a disco and come back late at night, and then still be on the ice at seven o'clock in the morning.
When I'm traveling, it's quite difficult. I go around the hotel for fitness. I get some stuff in, but it's not enough.
When you're young, you travel with your parents. When you get older you bring your husband with you. But when you get my age you bring your physical therapist.
With ABC, I am standing right on the ice and I am right where the skaters come by.
You do make a lot of sacrifices being an athlete, but you learn lessons for the rest of your life.
You don't have to be an athlete to have a passion for something.
She is 5 feet, 5? inches tall. (1.66 m)
She won an Emmy Award in 1990 for her role in the film Carmen on Ice.
In 1999, she was voted as "Most Favorite Female Athlete in the United States". also that year, she was voted as the "Most Favorite Female Skater of the Century".
In 1995, she was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
She won the World Championships four times, in 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988.
She was on the December 1998 cover of Playboy.
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