Tom Scholz Quotes

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I love ice-skating but I'm not very good at it.

My mom choreographed the top Olympians; she's really the queen of ice in her world, so I kind of get my directorial bug from her because she's really good at telling people what to do!

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it.

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with my new coach Peter Oppegard.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

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.

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

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

Just think Beyonce on ice, honey. That's me.

Daisuke Takahashi has really good footwork.

'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.

It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

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

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.

Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.

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