Sasha Cohen Quotes

In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.

A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form.

I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget.

It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best technicians in the world, but they'll be boring to watch. It has to be about entertainment as well, but it's quality, grace.

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

You can't just come out and do the same moves that you always do because someone just basically came into the center of the ring and spun around on their head and did a back flip.

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

Dance classes are not designed to be workouts - they're designed to teach skill.

I can make a beginner, anyone with no dance experience, look amazing if we put in the hours.

Dance has been very close to my heart. I am very passionate about it.

There are lots of aspects to work on my game, which the coaches do with me every day.

I've always felt that Balanchine is my ultimate teacher. I learn the most from observing his work and also dancing in it.

Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.

If you think about it - if you watch a gymnast compete, you don't see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it's polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version.

Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table.

The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet.

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.