Quotes About Dedication

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.

There's a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there.

Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.

My parents always tell me that they never would have let me start if they had known how expensive and difficult figure skating is.

My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate - especially my dad - he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too.

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.

In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It's your time; you do your best.

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating; I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

I would never even think about skating with somebody else. The whole reason I wanted to come back to skating was to be close to Tessa again, and to share those moments.

Anybody that Tessa and I end up with in our personal lives would have to understand how much we love skating and how much we love being together on the ice. If they didn't understand that, then we wouldn't be with them.

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

I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

We came back. We didn't have to. It was for us. And I think there is power to that. We're doing this because we love figure skating, because we love ice dancing with each other. It's a crazy thing to say, but that's why.

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

In skating, I knew that 2014 was going to be it for me. I had my heart set on trying baseball again after.

I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.

If Rajamouli is the brain and heart of 'Baahubali,' the producers are its skeleton, holding everything together, and the fans are the blood. Rajamouli deserves all the laurels, but he's so modest that he diverts all of it towards his team.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I took classes and performed and did improv and sketch and wrote sketches and did lights and sound for other people's shows just so I could be around the theater. That was about seven nights a week for seven years.