Quotes About Achievement

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I loved the whole practice, and I also loved performing. It was probably the first time I felt really good about myself and that I was good at something, because I always liked being athletic.

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

I started skating when I was six years old.

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.

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.

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

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.

Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that's what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.

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.

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.

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.

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