Katarina Witt Quotes

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Katarina Witt

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 3, 1965

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

Katarina Witt

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

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Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

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When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

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