Quotes About Competition

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

Obviously, the skaters in generations before us didn't have the opportunity to win multiple medals at an Olympic Games. We recognize that.

I was a competitive roller skater for 12 years.

When it comes down to competition, it's not always about the best skater, it's about who skates the best in that competition.

I've been on skates since age 5.

When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

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.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

I really like figure skating.

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.

I sometimes think about adult skating and how, you know, people like Midori Ito, she competed at the adult world championships. I feel like I'll probably be someone like that.

The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.

Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.

I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.