Tessa Virtue Quotes

Tessa Virtue

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 17, 1989

The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story.

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We're so excited to skate in a Canadian market.

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The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.

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I can get very quiet and internalize things.

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Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

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Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.

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When I'm not on the ice, I do interval work on the bike or the elliptical, trying to mimic a four-minute routine. But it doesn't come close.

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I'm quite fair and I need to protect myself with a good ball cap. Any time I can rep the Jays or the Leafs is great.

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You put yourself in the public eye. You're kind of an open target.

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Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

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It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

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I love golf clothes. I have a lot of fun with the little golf skirts and vests.

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Part of the attraction to golf may be that it's just a score on the sheet and there's not much you can do about it.

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It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

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Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

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We have the opportunity to make people feel something, feel some emotion, and then also we get to be just pure athletes, and from a pure technical standpoint do things are really technically demanding, and very challenging. So it's that balance between the two that we love. And we love to play with the limits and push ourselves.

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It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

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We care so much about the sport that we invest everything we have into it.

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I've learned a lot about pain management.

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Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in.

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