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When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

I really like figure skating.

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!