Quotes from Scott Moir

Anybody that Tessa and I end up with in our personal lives would have to understand how much we love skating and how much we love being together on the ice. If they didn't understand that, then we wouldn't be with them.

We came back. We didn't have to. It was for us. And I think there is power to that. We're doing this because we love figure skating, because we love ice dancing with each other. It's a crazy thing to say, but that's why.

We'll know when our skating career is over by how we've progressed over the years and if we think we've got to a place where we couldn't do any better - then it would be time to retire.

We knew we made a mistake in 2014. We didn't pick music that was dear to our hearts and weren't personally invested in a program. We vowed to never do that again.

Ice dance was a part of my life from a young age. My older brother ice danced and like many younger brothers, I wanted to follow in my older brother's footsteps.

It's hard to slack off when you have these guys out there going 100 miles an hour around the ice.

We're very passionate about figure skating but it's a huge world out there and there's a lot of opportunity, and it'll be so much fun to see where we go.

You've got to make it easy for the judges to mark. It's got to be clean elements.

I have always enjoyed being a part of a team and benefitting from lifting the spirits of a teammate one day and having them lift yours the next.

We wanted to prove to everybody that we weren't the same old Tessa and Scott, trying to do the same tricks again. We wanted to be different.

What our generation hopefully is doing is not believing in that so-called bad luck that Canada has with figure skating at the Olympics.

You can't just measure yourself solely on winning that medal. It has to be on the everyday experience.

'The Seasons' program that really is part of our souls, it tells the story of our relationship of Tessa and Scott and it's a lot of fun for our longtime fans and hopefully for our new fans.

It's motivating to watch younger teams excel.

Obviously, Fred Astaire was a legend. I've tried to copy some of his movements.

When I watch a movie, I want movie stars to be in love too.

You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals.

It's really tricky to find someone who understands the relationship that Tessa and I have, because it's unique.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

When we think about making the people in the audience happy, or trying to make them feel something, it kind of goes to waste. Usually we have our best skates when we just think about each other, and we just think about being in unison, and think about the program we're trying to do.

I believe in the morals that I do. I believe in the projects I take part in and I think that has been my north star.

You don't win the Olympic to make millions. People are always like, 'Where is your Lamborghini?'

We feel like we're the Olympic gold medallists and we have the opportunity to bring that gold home. That will be our goal and short of that we would probably be disappointed.

If I can inspire at least one per cent to live what I lived being a part of the Canadian Olympic team then I'm very happy with that.