My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.
If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try. . . and you try. . . and you try it again. . . except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.
Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.
For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.
If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.
I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.
When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.