American - Athlete | November 12, 1970 -
I've been nothing several times. But it's my faith in myself and in my father that comes back to me and makes me get back up off my butt and be something worth being proud of.
Tonya Harding
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I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.
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One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
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I have always loved to skate, and that is all I wanted to do. Having my whole, entire career taken away from me by somebody else - not losing it myself - I do have blame, but when somebody takes your whole, entire life away from you, and you don't know what to do, it's like you're lost.
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The media had me convicted of doing something wrong before I had even done anything at all, before I had talked to anyone, before I get out of bed. I'm always the bad person.
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It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.
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I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.
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I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.
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I've been with my husband for seven years. With my husband and my son, I get my second chance in life to be loved and be happy.
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I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.
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I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.
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My dad was always supportive of me and my skating, and he loved me as best that he could, and he worked hard.
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