Brian Boitano Quotes (15 Quotes)

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

There certainly are X Games qualities now. It's not bad to keep including different things.

We've lived with that situation for our whole skating life, and I don't think by having 14 judges is really going to get rid of it that easily.

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

It's an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world, ... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it.

If you are on the inside of skating, you sort of understand it. But not quite.

If you win the short, you start thinking, 'I'm ahead' and get more nervous.

We didn't have time to thrash our bodies as much. We practiced compulsories 412 hours a day.

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