Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.
I remember watching the 2002 Olympic Games and watching the men's event. I just started figure skating, and I remember thinking how cool it would be to be there.
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.
I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.
Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it.
I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week.
I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice.
I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.
A lot of the things I do outside the rink are just to relax and recover. We spend so much time at the rink, so it's nice to decompress a little.
I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.
Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.
New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.
Once I landed the triple Salchow, I put it in the program. First landed triple toe, straight into the program. That's what I did with my quad suite.
Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.
I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.
It was great to play with some of my old linemates.
Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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 grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.
I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.
I loved being at the rink every day and training.
