Quotes About Commitment

Baseball is my true passion. Skating was more of a short-term goal.

School for me has always been a really great balance with the skating.

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball.

Right now it looks like skating is done for me. I'm ready to move on. But if baseball doesn't work out and I still have that itch for skating, I may be back.

I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.

My family and parents were very influential in my skating career.

I've been skating since I was 10 years old.

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

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

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

And I love what I do and I love skating.

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.

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

My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

Part of the strength that Charlie and I have as a team is we've been able to keep our priorities straight through our entire partnership. We've been able to maintain a life outside of skating, and though we've given up a lot of things and we've been training really hard our entire lives, we've been able to maintain great social lives.

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

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

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.