Sarah Hughes Quotes

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

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

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

I'm very competitive. If I have to 'turn it on,' I know how to. The switch isn't hard to find, don't worry.

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

I don't think you can ever get bored or lose focus as a competitor.

I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.

When I put my helmet on, I'm ultra competitive, talking trash.

I want to be a full-package skater.

Being able to land all the quads, especially doing them all in one program, is mentally huge.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.

I'm the type of player, once I get in there, I'm locked in. I'm trying to win.

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 like to relax; of course I do! But when I am inside the pitch, that is it. You have to go on full on from the first minute.

Great players always play with a chip on their shoulder no matter if they have a reason to or not.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

I can compete with anybody. I'm a true competitor. I'm a winner.

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