Nancy Kerrigan

“It was never about winning medals or being famous.”

“One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.”

“People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.”

“I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.”

“I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.”

“My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.”

“החיים שלי היו מערבולת מאז אולימפיאדת 94'.”

“אנשים היו שואלים אותי למה אני עושה את מה שאני עושה – אבל תמיד אמרתי להם שאני פשוט אוהבת להחליק. לא היה הסבר אחר.”

“אחד הדברים שאני הכי אוהבת במופע ליל כל הקדושים הוא שאני מחליפה בגדים בערך שש פעמים במופע. זה מאוד כיף לשחק את הדמויות השונות.”

“זהו תהליך של מציאת המוזיקה הנכונה ואז תכנון תלבושת שתתאים לסגנון המוזיקה.”

“קודם כול היינו צריכות ללמוד איך לעמוד על הקרח עם מחליקיים. בסופו של דבר למדנו להתקדם, אבל מהר מאוד גילינו שזה לא כל כך קל לעצור! אז זה היה השיעור החשוב הבא שלנו.”

“I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.”

“But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.”

“People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.”

“I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.”

“I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!”

“It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.”

“I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!”

“Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.”

“It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.”