Quotes from Debi Thomas

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

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 after I returned.

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, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

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.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.