Apolo Ohno Quotes

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which was like a four-week thing. By the end of it, I was hooked. I love it. It's sort of flirty, but it's not sexual. I can't quit until I've got it down and I can really dance. I'm there four or five times a week.

'ABCD' is an out-and-out dance film. I also dance in the film. I must say you would see better dancers than me in this film. It was very tough for me to match their steps.

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

I'm a decent dancer - I can hold my own.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

I'm not a big dancer!

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.

My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.

The paso doble is my favourite dance on 'Strictly,' so I'm so pleased I get to do it.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.

I can't dance, but I have tried it in 'Kohram.'

I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS.

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

With 'Dancing with the Stars,' they miraculously send your dance teacher with you wherever you need to be.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.