Katarina Witt Quotes

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Katarina Witt

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 3, 1965

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.

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

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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

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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.

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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

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I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

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I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

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The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

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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.

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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

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