Plushenko Evgeni Quotes & Sayings

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen. — Evgeni Plushenko

I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals. — Evgeni Plushenko

My main competitor is myself. — Evgeni Plushenko

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful. — Jayni Chase

...I have to admit that I've ... always felt burdened by nostalgia, by a desire to stop time, to recapture things that have been lost. A sense that everything, absolutely everything, is on a journey from which there's no return. — Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

This one doesn't exist. The prettiest girl and the best car don't exist as well. — Evgeni Plushenko

Keep the faith ... that the best is yet to come.
Keep the faith that the next extraordinary version of you is being crafted even now ... that nothing can deter you from keeping your commitment to achieving your goals set for today ... that you can better your best!
Keep the faith.
Move forward in spite of your fears and despite any evidence to the contrary.
Believe that IT'S POSSIBLE!! — Les Brown

As a Persian scholar wrote, around 1115, "The people of China are the most skilfull of men in handicrafts. No other nation approaches them in this. The people of Rum (the Eastern Roman Empire) are highly proficient (in technology) too, but they do not reach the standards of the Chinese. The latter say that all men are blind in craftsmanship, except the men of Rum, who however are one-eyed, that is, they know only half the business. — Tonio Andrade

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — T. S. Eliot

I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done. — Evgeni Plushenko

If I meet you at your third floor window tonight, will you let me in? he whispers softly against my ear, hardly a murmur. — Katie Klein

I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content. — Evgeni Plushenko

I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own. — Evgeni Plushenko

The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again. — Mark Bradford

Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol. — Evgeni Plushenko

And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a 'black problem' and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that's racist, — Bill Maher

It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself. — Evgeni Plushenko

What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything. — Evgeni Plushenko

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong. — Evgeni Plushenko

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. — Alfred Hitchcock

I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour. — Evgeni Plushenko

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control. — Evan Williams

Desires are nourished by delays. — Thomas Draxe

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts. — Pat Conroy

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing. — Evgeni Plushenko

It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing. — Evgeni Plushenko

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series. — Tom Glavine