Quotes from Tessa Virtue

We're always learning about our bodies and learning how to take care of them properly and how to perform at our best.

We're in a pressure-filled sport for sure, but anything in an Olympic season is heightened, the highs are higher and the lows are lower, and everything just takes on grander proportions.

I've been told I'm really bad at flirting.

I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.

As women, we're busy. We're under stress and under pressure, and the expectations are so high for us, so the first thing to go is self-care.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

There's no easy way to the top of anything, but it's a lot of hard work and I feel maybe I have the confidence in that recipe, or the confidence in myself.

I was so lucky. I grew up with an incredibly strong grandmother, mother and sister. All three, independent, fierce, clever women who were hard workers, had goals and visions for themselves, and were really ambitious. And, they didn't apologize for those goals.

You have your best workouts when you go in thinking you don't want to do it, because you're so satisfied with your own determination and grit.

You're never going to regret working out or being active. You might regret not doing it, you might regret pressing that snooze button, but you'll never regret getting physically active.

I don't think I'm going to look back and wish that I spent more time worrying about my muscles or fat or whatever.

I'm quite fair and I need to protect myself with a good ball cap. Any time I can rep the Jays or the Leafs is great.

There's a difference between feeling nervous and feeling: 'I'm not worthy of taking the ice.'

Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in.

Anytime an athlete deals with an injury, it forces you to revaluate and refocus.

Everyone has those insecurities, everyone doubts themselves but it's how we handle that as humans and as people and how we support one another and how we really embrace the things that make us unique.

I can get very quiet and internalize things.

I think that physical confidence transcends to all facets of your life.

It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

We're so excited to skate in a Canadian market.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.