Quotes by Debi Thomas

• I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.
• For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.
• I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.
• I begged my mom to let me start skating.
• I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
• 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 watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
• The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
• My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.
• 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.
• 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.
• Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.
• So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
• I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.