45 Quotes by Katarina Witt

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.

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.

When you're young, you travel with your parents. When you get older you bring your husband with you. But when you get my age you bring your physical therapist.

She took a day of rest, which is fine. She is physically prepared, and maybe she doesn't need that day of pressure with everyone watching her.

He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. He was young and naive.

What I like is that she has been always a fighter. There have been so many young skaters coming and going, winning the Olympics and leaving. She kept defending her titles and still setting goals for herself, which I think is great. She always could have taken the easy way, and she never did.

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

The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.