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.
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
And I love what I do and I love skating.
Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.
I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.
Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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.
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.
I think skating helped me find myself.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Skating is in my heart, not my head
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.
It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
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