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.

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.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

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

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.

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.

I’m the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn’t win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

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.

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.

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

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

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.

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.

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.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it’s you who has to go out and deliver.