Bonnie Blair quotes:

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

Skating is joy.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

You have to have the right mind-set.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Winning doesn't always mean being first,

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport

I don't fear anything.

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.