Best 23 quotes of Katarina Witt on MyQuotes

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

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.

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

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.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

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.

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

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

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.