The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. – Peggy Fleming
When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight. – Peggy Fleming
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes. – Peggy Fleming
Pop stardom is not very compelling. Im much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and theres no pomp and circumstance to the performance. Theres no, like, Ill be the rock star, you be the adulating fan. – Ani DiFranco