Debi Thomas Quotes

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• My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the…
• I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
• Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed…
• I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
• What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination,…
• I tell people I'm too stupid to...
• What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.
• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
• My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.
• It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the…
• I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.
• The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
• For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.
• I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
• I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.
• I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
• I begged my mom to let me start skating.
• I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.
• Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.
• But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

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