Brian Boitano Quotes

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

Brian Boitano

#2. A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

Brian Boitano

#3. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

Ken Olson

#4. O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

Brian Boitano

#6. 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.

Brian Boitano

#7. First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance,

Brian Boitano

#8. 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.

Brian Boitano

#9. From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.

Brian Boitano

#10. Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body," you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor

Gabby Bess

#11. 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.

Brian Boitano

#12. Its 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.

Brian Boitano

#13. I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.

Brian Boitano

#14. Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of these computers an entire day to send an email to the other one, which would immediately delete it, because it was a Viagra ad.

Dave Barry

#15. 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.

Brian Boitano

#16. It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.

Walter J. Phillips

#17. For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a way to well-being?

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

#18. I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'

Lauren Beukes

#19. 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.

Brian Boitano

#20. 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.

Brian Boitano

#21. 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.

Brian Boitano

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

Brian Boitano

#23. Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

Dale Carnegie

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

Brian Boitano

#25. As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

Brian Boitano