Top 60 Johnny Weir Quotes

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I’m a strong person and a strong individual. And that’s what I take with me every day.

I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.

I have a whole fur closet. I’m not afraid of PETA.

It’s really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won’t. But I’m strong enough to deal with that. I own that I’m freakish in my way.

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it’s all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

When you are an athlete, it’s difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

There’s a lot in my closet. I’ve been collecting things since I was five. I’m definitely a pack rat. I’m not a hoarder, but I’m definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

I’m very inspired by the artfulness and soulfulness of the Russian people.

I don’t eat as much as an athlete should. I just don’t like it.

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.

I never ever wanted to change my sport… Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I’d made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I’ve obviously chosen my coach, my costumes – all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

If I wanted to be any woman in the world, it would not be Bethenny Frankel.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can’t be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

Nothing shocks me anymore. I’ve embraced men in thongs, I’ve embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying ‘fierce.’

Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team.

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It’s an amazing feeling.

I don’t take on a project unless I know the end result is going to make me happy. If I can’t give 100 percent to something, I choose not to do it because it’s very difficult to have so many pots on the fire at one time.

I’m going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

I’m not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What’s wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

I’m not really one to go out in public in dresses too often. I definitely mix it up between masculine and feminine all the time, but wearing a dress goes a little bit too far.

Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that’s why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

Figure skating is a bit dated – it’s like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I’m going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

Now the fact that people are saying, ‘Oh my God, he’s finally come out’ – I was never in.

I hope that more children have the same opportunities as me, with the same parents as me, that let me be an individual, who gave me freedom, and taught me to believe in myself before anyone else would believe in me.

I drink Vitamin Water nonstop – I should have an IV.

I’m different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody’s a robot. Nobody’s perfect.

I’ve always had a loud mouth, and for that I’ve gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I’m used to.

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects – television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving – is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don’t have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.

I still have so much passion to perform… That’s who Johnny Weir is: I’m a figure skater, I’m an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn’t rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn’t win that gold medal.

I definitely feel like I’m more of an artist than an athlete. But I’m good at both.

Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It’s an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.

I’d say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It’s my style. I can’t classify it as anything else.

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

I’m not commercial, I’m not for Special K cereal and I’m not a Wheaties boy; I’m a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it’s footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it’s the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

I’m an insomniac. Ambien is my best friend.

I’m a huge fur fan; it’s no secret to anyone anymore.

I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don’t think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we’ve got ‘Jersey Shore,’ and I don’t know what that teaches young kids.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you’d see how necessary it is.

Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can’t control it.

I think I’ve gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it’s really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

I’ve lived my whole life exactly the way I’ve wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn’t matter to me. They’re all things I’m born with.

Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that’s why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

Figure skating is theatrical. It’s artistic. It’s elegant. It’s extremely athletic. And there’s a very specific audience for that.

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that’s what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

I don’t want to spend my life on an ice cube.

My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, ‘Thank you for representing us,’ and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that’s been amazing.