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Katarina Witt Quotes

Katarina Witt Quotes.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
Katarina Witt
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
Katarina Witt
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
Katarina Witt
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
Katarina Witt
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
I’m the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Katarina Witt
It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
Katarina Witt
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
Katarina Witt
I was an athlete. And I proved I didn’t win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
Katarina Witt
When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up – I’ll just deal with it.
Katarina Witt
It’s not like I didn’t do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I’ve been on the ice a lot. I’m not an outsider.
Katarina Witt
The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
Katarina Witt
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt
I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
Katarina Witt
When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
Katarina Witt
The feeling of losing oneself in somebody’s arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
Katarina Witt
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt
I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it’s you who has to go out and deliver.
Katarina Witt