Peggy Fleming Quotes

#1. I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

Sarah Hughes

#2. There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Dorothy Hamill

#3. I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

Dorothy Hamill

#4. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Dorothy Hamill

#5. Then came the choreography ... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

Peggy Fleming

#6. Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

Peggy Fleming

#7. This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

Peggy Fleming

#8. We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

Peggy Fleming

#9. The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

Peggy Fleming

#10. Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

Andrea Dworkin

#11. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#12. 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

#13. My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

Peggy Fleming

#14. 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

#15. Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

Peggy Fleming

#16. The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

Peggy Fleming

#17. People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Chris Weitz

#18. Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

Abby Sunderland

#19. As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

Peggy Fleming

#20. The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Peggy Fleming

#21. I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

Peggy Fleming

#22. But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

Leslye Walton

#23. Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

Peggy Fleming

#24. When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

Peggy Fleming

#25. It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.

Peggy Fleming

#26. In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

Peggy Fleming

#27. I think skating helped me find myself.

Peggy Fleming