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I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.