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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People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

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Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

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I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.

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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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Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

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I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

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My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

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- and was sentenced to three years of probation, 500 hours of community service and was forced to pay The New York Timesreported, The New York Timesreported. Tonya Harding was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association in June 1994, Cosmopolitanreported. In an interview with The New York Times that was publishedin January 2018, Tonya Harding told the paper Tonya Harding knew the attack would follow Tonya Harding for the rest of Tonya Harding life. I knew that this would be with me for the rest of my life.

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I don’t want her anywhere near me. I don’t want her anywhere near my son, she wants forgiveness. She wants to see me. She wants to make amends. She wants to meet and be part of the family. Hell no.

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I love my country. If they don't love me, I don't care.

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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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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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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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She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

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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.

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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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Some people, if you eat a carrot, you're killing it.

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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'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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The movie portrayed me as this person who cussed every 10 seconds, and I don't cuss like that.

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