The most important thing is being passionate about what you’re doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

~ Charlie White

I still have so much passion to perform… That’s who Johnny Weir is: I’m a figure skater, I’m an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

~ Johnny Weir

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody’s a robot. Nobody’s perfect.

~ Johnny Weir

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

~ Debi Thomas

Just because you didn’t start out perfect doesn’t mean you can’t have an excellent result in the end.

~ Debi Thomas

I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

~ Debi Thomas

‘A legend’: Meet the Canadian figure skating coach who survived the Holocaust, revolutionized her sport and still works at 92

By Sean Fitz-Gerald, National Post
Originally Published: 15 October 2013

TORONTO — Ellen Burka, the renowned Canadian figure skating coach, drove herself to the rink the other day. In Ontario, drivers are required to renew their licence every two years after they turn 80, and Burka had proudly passed her test again earlier in the year, for the “fifth or sixth time.”

“Oh, I’m bored at home,” she said with a laugh. “What shall I do? What do you want me to do? I’m sitting at home all day long, a little old lady, 92 years old. So I keep going. And they still want me, believe it or not.”… Click here to read on

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you’re capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

~ Debi Thomas

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

~ Katarina Witt

It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

~ Elvis Stojko