Quotes from Debi Thomas


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


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.


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


Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.


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


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


I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.


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


I begged my mom to let me start skating.


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


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


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


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


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


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


I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.


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.


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


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


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.