Patrick Chan Quotes

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

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

Daisuke Takahashi has really good footwork.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.

Skating is really hard, especially women's skating where we're judged in little tiny dresses.

Figure skating is such an individual sport, but to have a teammate on the podium with you is unbelievable.

When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.

I loved being at the rink every day and training.

I want to be shooter, be competitive, go to the net, so it has changed, but it hasn't changed that much. It's more skating than it used to be for sure.

There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.

I don't think I've ever felt overwhelmed on an ice rink.

I played hockey with the best of them.

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Skating is a very subjective sport where fans have their favorites.

Skating has given me so many opportunities.

I can't count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I've done and how many world championships I've been to, so I think I've really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect.

I have so much to give to skating in Canada.