In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It’s your time; you do your best. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
You can always say, ‘I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn’t fall.’ They’re not regrets, just mistakes. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
The biggest lessons I learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges – when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
Even at a young age, when you start to do well, it’s tough because it’s lonely on top, and I wasn’t the most popular. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
A few years after I finished skating, someone asked where my medals were. I’m like, ‘In a suitcase somewhere.’ Now they’re nicely displayed in an ice rink, but medals don’t really mean that much. It’s the experience, the story of the skating, the love. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother – people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
The Women’s Sports Foundation has empowered so many young girls and women across the U.S. I benefitted from WSF with a travel and training grant when I was 12 years old. It really helped my family financially. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
You see figure skaters fall all the time. It’s the way you pick yourself back up and keep going. Michelle Kwan Read Quote