Words matter. These are the best Katarina Witt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
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 don’t think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don’t think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
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.
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
I don’t want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
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.
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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.
When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up – I’ll just deal with it.
Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
I’m the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it’s you who has to go out and deliver.
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.
