To Be The World's Best, You Have

To Be The World's Best, You Have To Beat The World's Best.

I Was Just Ice Skating. I Had No Concept Of That. In Those Days You Couldn't See The Judges. I Was This Little Person On The Ice And They Were Just People That Would Stand Around The Boards.

My Mother Stopped Working When She Had My Brother. She Was A Full Time Mom Until I Started Getting Heavily Into Ice Skating Lessons, And It Got To The Point Where They Really Needed My Mom To Earn An Income.

It's Different Today Than It Was Then. In Those Days We Were Strictly Amateurs. If I Had Wanted To Stay In For The '80 Olympics, My Parents Couldn't Have Afforded It.

Our Family Life, Before Figure Skating Turned It Upside Down, Seemed Normal. Our Town Of Riverside, Connecticut, Was Part Of Greenwich, And We Had The Advantage Of Their Wonderful Community, With Great Beaches And Beautiful Parks.