Tessa Virtue Quotes

Tessa Virtue

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 17, 1989

Hair and makeup has become part of my pre-competition routine. It's a quiet time, when I can reflect, I can put on some music - and I can mentally get in the zone of performance.

Tessa Virtue

The Nivea Care Cream changed my life.

Tessa Virtue

When we're choreographing, we're on the ice five or six hours a day. The setting for your skin is just horrendous - the stress and the competition makeup and the training itself.

Tessa Virtue

We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there's been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that's why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.

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When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.

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I think that physical confidence transcends to all facets of your life.

Tessa Virtue

At all times, there's discussion about the percentage of body fat I have, how I look on the ice and about how much skin a certain costume is showing.

Tessa Virtue

To be held back by fear is to miss out on challenging yourself in different ways.

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I love the idea of women empowering other women. We need to come together and support one another and embrace one another.

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I have a muscular build and I've learned to embrace that because it's makes me strong, giving me speed and power on the ice. It's a different kind of femininity - one that doesn't fit the norm.

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I joined the Young Philanthropists Circle at the Musee Des Beaux Arts, we have little events every month where you learn about a different artist and you see the exhibit and you get an inside an inside look at the technique used.

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I want to ensure that I'm sending the right messages and that I'm empowering others, and doing things that feel like they're in line with my values.

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I have this platform that I've worked hard for, but now I want to make use of it.

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I never want to be randomly posing with a product or putting my name to a brand arbitrarily.

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We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

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Ultimately, and I can appreciate this as I get older, those quirks and those differences are what I find so attractive about other people, that's what I think being beautiful is.

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The more people feel comfortable to showcase that and the more we highlight that as a visibility for young girls to see and look up to - I think that's better.

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Everyone has those insecurities, everyone doubts themselves but it's how we handle that as humans and as people and how we support one another and how we really embrace the things that make us unique.

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I think everyone struggles to feel comfortable in their skin or has at one time or another.

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