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

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

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

I don't fear anything.

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

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

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have to have the right mind-set.

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.

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.