...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.

One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

Actually I dance really well on the floor.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

my mother will never leave me. We're together. She will always stay in my heart.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

We always vilify what we don't understand.

In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.