Jumping has always been the thing to me. It's like leaping for joy, but of course there's more to it than that. Galina Chistyakova [U.S.S.R.] has just done 25 feet, Heike Drechsler [G.D.R.] is on the runway and I'm behind her. You have to respond here and now. It lets you know what you're made of.

Time (19 September 1988)