Top 44 Patrick Chan Quotes

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I feel proud to be a skater: it’s taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I’ve had with myself.

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.

Experience is a funny thing. You don’t always have it when you need it.

In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.

There isn’t quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you’re playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

Quads are very exciting to watch, but they’re so quick, and they’re very short moments in the program… I don’t really enjoy it.

I get mad at my mom. I really wish she’d put me into hockey. I’m not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He’s unbelievable. He’s small, but he’s so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good.

I carry a lot of muscle easily.

I’m very proud I’m Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

Even when I’m winning, hands-down the best, it’s a struggle. I’m thinking, ‘Oh, God! Just get me through this.’ It’s like surgery.

In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

I’m going to stick to what I can do… because if I try and,,, do the impossible, I will either get too frustrated to the point where I won’t enjoy the sport anymore, or I will get hurt and maybe have to get hip replacements at age 30.

I hope that people will one day look back at my skating and what I brought to the table. ‘Remember when Patrick skated like this? Or remember when skating was like this?’ That would be a cool legacy to leave behind.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

I have a life outside of skating.

I’m not good at multitasking.

I’m competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I’m at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn’t enough for some people?

My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it’s not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

All I can say is I’m proud to be Canadian.

Skating has given me so many opportunities.

I can do all my jumps in practice, three in a row, five out of five, four out of five.

If I ever got in the way of Kurt Browning or Elvis Stojko, and they got mad and yelled at me, I’d be, ‘Oh my God! I’m so sorry!’

I’ll always represent Canada. I was born here, and my parents chose to immigrate here. There are so many things I don’t see in other countries, I see here. I love having the Maple Leaf behind me.

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

Even though I’m very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I’ve lost some of my Chinese culture.

I have so much to give to skating in Canada.

When I go to competitions, I don’t have so much confidence that I don’t worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.

I’m not a big traveller.

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

My skating brought me to a level of being well known in Canada, but I’ve grown up having trained in the U.S. I haven’t lost my roots in Canada thanks to the little rpminders again when I come home: People thanking me for what I do and for representing Canada in the world stage.

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people’s desire for me to do well.

The lifestyle of Vancouver does seem to really draw me towards there.

Traditionally, skaters tend to tie their skates very tightly. I tend to just tie my foot down, then in the ankle area, I tend to keep it loose. It gives me better mobility. But also, you’re relying on your own strength as opposed to resting on the boot.

I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.

I have a good idea of how lucky we are to be growing up in Canada.

The attitude is different in the U.S. I feel like, in Canada, there is more of a sense of community and more of a sense of, ‘I’ll take the shirt off my back to help you because you’re my neighbour.’ There is not many of us, right? So each and every Canadian is very special.

I’m extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

I’m slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I’ve come from.

I can’t count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I’ve done and how many world championships I’ve been to, so I think I’ve really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect.

When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.