Oksana Baiul Quotes

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.

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.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

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

My proficiency with ballet was on a steep decline the more I skated.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

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.

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.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

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.

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

Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.

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

You have to remember that you are part of a craft, and you are constantly building your craft. Ultimately, we are artists, so it comes from us. And I think the tricky thing about being an actor is that we're looking for someone else to give us something... Thinking like an artist and thinking like an out-of-work actor are two different things.

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

To a lot of MMA fighters, pro wrestling is a very popular thing and I'm very thankful for them to try and make the transition into professional wrestling. But then they figure out its not as easy as a lot of people think.

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

I love the classic side of skating, making it look like a full program and not just technical based.

Figure skating, especially the longer performances, are such a feat. It requires so much stamina and is so beautiful.

Track and road cycling are very different things. It is easy to look at them both as cycling but going from the road to the track is like asking Andy Murray to play squash: yes, it's a racket sport like tennis, but it's not the same.

I want to be a full-package skater.