Quotes from Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Every partner has their strengths, and our responsibility as professionals is to recognize those strengths and capitalize on them, choreographically. You have to translate that chemistry on the dance floor and make their personalities shine.

The type of person I am, I mean, I'm fairly jealous.

I'm a 15-time national champion, so for me I had a long, competitive dancing career before joining 'Dancing With the Stars.'

I am passionate about dance, I grew up in dance, I was a young kid competing in dance, so I have a great perspective on it.

We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.

You can't pay me to stand on a treadmill for more than five minutes, but I love being physically active.

For as long as my body allows for it, I want to keep going.

Kissing is like hugging with your lips.

I'm the youngest sibling of a very outspoken, very popular character. As much as I love to share the stage with him and share the narrative with him we we have had our entire lives, I have my own creative outlook on things.

It's not about the gold medals or the trophies or the money. It's about the people that you cherish and can share incredible moments with.

I play basketball, I play soccer, I draw, uh I like girls.

Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.

When you're on tour and you're more or less attached to the hip with people, you're sharing a bus, you're next to one another at all times, for me it's important to find my own space even it's for an hour of the day just to reset.

It's crazy how fast life moves.

I'm trying to be the best uncle I can be.

My newly acquired title of being an uncle boy was this a special one life-changing it even made my Instagram bio.

I was someone's younger sibling and I finally have my own voice and my own spotlight.

Trying to fuse a Jewish-Russian family with a Mormon family from Utah definitely is a challenge.

Our father is a hero for us and so I've always looked at him as somebody that I couldn't wait to be, as well. So I can't wait to be a father, and watching Maks become the father that he is has been very motivating for me, as well.

I am getting even better with age aesthetically.

Victoria Arlen has given me a purpose beyond the dance floor. She has given me an opportunity of a lifetime to be able to make an impact on a very special community and beyond.

I'm more eager to be a father than a husband, for sure.

I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.