Without strength and courage it`s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you`re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
When you`re expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you`re the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.