Top 25 Plushenko Quotes
#1. I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
Edith Wharton
#2. Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
Walt Disney Company
#3. I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.
Evgeni Plushenko
#4. I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done.
Evgeni Plushenko
#5. If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.
Evgeni Plushenko
#6. To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
Lane Kirkland
#7. It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.
Evgeni Plushenko
#8. Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
Agnes Repplier
#9. At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.
Evgeni Plushenko
#10. We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.
Robert D. Hales
#12. I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.
Evgeni Plushenko
#13. I wasn't fighting with Plushenko. I fought with myself and won
Alexei Yagudin
#15. I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.
Evgeni Plushenko
#17. Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.
Carl Jung
#19. I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.
Evgeni Plushenko
#20. This one doesn't exist. The prettiest girl and the best car don't exist as well.
Evgeni Plushenko
#21. I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.
Evgeni Plushenko
#22. What am I going to do with you?
I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.
Lora Leigh
#23. It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
Evgeni Plushenko
#24. I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.
Evgeni Plushenko
#25. What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.
Evgeni Plushenko
