#kat

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#figure #figure skating #mixture #skating

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#competition #competitions #forget #go #i

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#compete #competition #enough #get #had

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#attention #audience #empty #i #i always

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#focus #goal #just #me #one thing

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

— Katarina Witt

#competition #forget #go #i #ice

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#i #just #left #locker #locker room

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#advice #anything #athlete #coaches #dictate

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#figure #hockey #hockey players #key players #perceptions