Sarah Hughes Quotes

I showed everyone the medal and they said, ‘Ooh, I can’t believe how heavy it is,’ Sometimes they were more interested in the medal than in me. I was like, ‘Hey, what about me?’

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.

I liked being active. I liked being creative.

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 and day-out it would be.

When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.

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 it was just so loud I couldn’t even hear my music.

I just skated for the fun of it.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I’m enjoying it and I’m going to see where it takes me.

I didn’t hold back.

I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.

I could have been known for something terrible.