Top 61 Yamaguchi Quotes
#1. You can't feel lonely if there's no one else around.
-Yamaguchi Kenji (Yamaken)
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#2. Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#3. You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.
Roy Yamaguchi
#4. The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#5. I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#6. An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#7. The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.
Roy Yamaguchi
#8. Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#9. I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#11. I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#12. Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.
Gogen Yamaguchi
#13. The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual ... that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#14. Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.
Roy Yamaguchi
#15. I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#16. Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#17. Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#18. Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#19. As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#20. I am your bodyguard. That's my job. But I'll gladly take tips for my services... or services for my tips...
Masakazu Yamaguchi
#21. I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#22. No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.
Takayuki Yamaguchi
#23. With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#24. Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.
Gogen Yamaguchi
#26. There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#27. A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
Gogen Yamaguchi
#28. Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#29. My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#30. I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#31. See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.
Roy Yamaguchi
#32. Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#33. They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#34. As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#37. In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#38. Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#39. Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#40. I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#42. At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#43. It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.
Gogen Yamaguchi
#45. The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#46. Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#47. I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#48. It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.
Gogen Yamaguchi
#49. He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.
Takayuki Yamaguchi
#50. I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#52. You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is that it inspires a lot of the younger generation so, you know, with cooking shows and reality shows and the social media, I think it really makes our industry a hotter industry.
Roy Yamaguchi
#53. 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.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#54. I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.
Roy Yamaguchi
#55. I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#56. We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof ...
Takayuki Yamaguchi
#57. I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#58. Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#59. Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of ... winning the U.S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics ... It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?'
Kristi Yamaguchi
#60. The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breast-feeding their babies.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
#61. I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.
Kristi Yamaguchi
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