Quotes About Competition

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why I loved skating. You're literally in a fishbowl. You're in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.

The skating world is a very small world.

I stopped amateur skating competitively when I was 15.

I remember watching the 2002 Olympic Games and watching the men's event. I just started figure skating, and I remember thinking how cool it would be to be there.

At the Olympics, once I got there it was more about the full experience and skating to the best of my ability.

It's crazy to think that back when I was 11 years old I was skating X Games.

Skating is much more of an individual sport, and then there is a team event once the team is picked.

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.

SM:TV' is where we learned our trade. It was young, we could try out new sketches every week. When we got better ratings than our BBC rival, 'Live And Kicking,' it was amazing.

My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.

Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

Winning the overall is a dream I've had since being a young skier. It's everyone's dream.

International carriers need to be given greater role in our skies on all routes like several other large countries to make our aviation industry more efficient and competitive and prevent arbitrary pricing by monopolies.

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.