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.

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.

I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.

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

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

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.

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.