Words matter. These are the best Scott Moir Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Some days I look at Tessa and I just think this is such a funny little relationship that we have.
I think golf is more demanding when you’re actually good at it.
We wanted to prove to everybody that we weren’t the same old Tessa and Scott, trying to do the same tricks again. We wanted to be different.
After PyeongChang and after the tours, I was searching for different fulfillment. And then when my fiancee walked into my life, it became clear the direction I wanted to head.
In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.
My first love was hockey, but it seemed the more I skated and danced with Tessa, the more I fell in love with the sport.
It’s hard to slack off when you have these guys out there going 100 miles an hour around the ice.
You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals.
Obviously, Fred Astaire was a legend. I’ve tried to copy some of his movements.
Tessa and I, what we’d like to be – it’s so hard to evaluate ourselves – when we’re training, focusing on things, it’s about a man and a woman, what we create between each other, working off each other.
We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.
It’s motivating to watch younger teams excel.
For me, it’s about being true to myself and being true to our goals and not being afraid to declare what you want.
We’ll know when our skating career is over by how we’ve progressed over the years and if we think we’ve got to a place where we couldn’t do any better – then it would be time to retire.
Tessa is brilliant in every sense. Everybody should have a Tessa.
People can be a little bit catty.
I took some time, got out of the limelight a bit, and started going back into the rinks to just help out.
I don’t think it would be fair for Tessa to do ‘Dancing With The Stars.’
I’ve had partners – life partners, that didn’t understand it and I felt the pressure of that and took it out on Tessa, or vice versa I’m sure it wasn’t peachy to be in a relationship with me.
We’re very passionate about figure skating but it’s a huge world out there and there’s a lot of opportunity, and it’ll be so much fun to see where we go.
We want to go out and bring the house down. Anything short of that, we get disappointed.
We’re always telling stories, we’re supposed to be reacting, a man and woman on the ice, it’s romantic.
Tess and I have a unique relationship, she is like my younger but way more mature sister.
At Skate Canada, we have a history of very professional judging that’s very fair, and we’re proud of that.
‘The Seasons’ program that really is part of our souls, it tells the story of our relationship of Tessa and Scott and it’s a lot of fun for our longtime fans and hopefully for our new fans.
When we think about making the people in the audience happy, or trying to make them feel something, it kind of goes to waste. Usually we have our best skates when we just think about each other, and we just think about being in unison, and think about the program we’re trying to do.
I don’t think revenge is enough to fuel the fire it takes to go to an Olympic Games and be successful.
I would say that how we want to be remembered is by inspiring the next generation, and that goes for Canadians and anyone in the world. Hopefully ice dance has come to a new level.
We had a whole bunch of perks after the Olympic games like having dinner with the Queen of England and being hosted by the Prince of Monaco. We got to drop pucks at hockey games. We got to go on quite a tour.
Tessa’s hilarious. I think it’s one of the things that gets overlooked because she’s always so pulled together, but she has the best sense of humor.
To be an Olympian is not flattering for any partner that’s with you. It’s a really selfish part of your life.
We love to compete, and I feel like national champion is a title I want to get every year, so to see it going to another team is going to hurt.
One of the benefits of training in America is that we can go out and there isn’t that hype.
If I can inspire at least one per cent to live what I lived being a part of the Canadian Olympic team then I’m very happy with that.
We were made for each other, in a work relationship. There’s real love there. We’re so proud of the business relationship we have.
Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.
You can’t just measure yourself solely on winning that medal. It has to be on the everyday experience.
I have always enjoyed being a part of a team and benefitting from lifting the spirits of a teammate one day and having them lift yours the next.
Actually I prefer brunettes.
We’re not coming back unless it’s to become Olympic champions again.
We don’t have to fake the feeling of looking into each other’s eyes and feeling something. That’s a joy. It’s been a joy our whole career.
When I’m home, my friends are all coming home from work, their lives are a little more concrete.
You don’t win the Olympic to make millions. People are always like, ‘Where is your Lamborghini?’
Tessa and I have grown up together. It’s hard to explain our relationship because we’ve gone through so much together. It’s so intense. It is so special. You can’t really compare it and it’s hard for people to understand it.
It’s really tricky to find someone who understands the relationship that Tessa and I have, because it’s unique.
Every time I turn on the Olympics there is somebody that I know and have had intense conversations with, and that’s cool.
That’s what we love to do and I think our skating’s at it’s best when we do that: when we draw people in and hopefully make them feel something.
We came back. We didn’t have to. It was for us. And I think there is power to that. We’re doing this because we love figure skating, because we love ice dancing with each other. It’s a crazy thing to say, but that’s why.
We’re very proud of our business relationship, it’s been very special for 20 years. Who can say that? It makes me shake my head sometimes driving to the rink, because I’m still excited to see Tessa at the arena for warmup.
It’s funny to look back – Tessa was seven and I was nine. I remember there wasn’t a lot of talking at the beginning. We were terrified to hold hands for quite a while.
It’s exciting for me as a male to see other guys wanting to be ice dancers.
It is discouraging a little bit to look up at the board and see that we’re about 30 points behind our points goal for a competition.
Anybody that Tessa and I end up with in our personal lives would have to understand how much we love skating and how much we love being together on the ice. If they didn’t understand that, then we wouldn’t be with them.
In ice dance, the practices are huge. The judges are there, they’re talking. Your judge is trying to sell you to the other countries’ judges – ‘Look at that lift, they have tons of speed’ – and you have to be on.
I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.
Ice dance was a part of my life from a young age. My older brother ice danced and like many younger brothers, I wanted to follow in my older brother’s footsteps.
Now we understand that experience counts for a lot. Tessa and I have been together for a very long time, we’ve been in a lot of situations and we know how to handle them.
I want to get back on the international stage. I want to bring in Olympic champions to southwestern Ontario and I want it to be done the right way.
People always think we have the summer off, but it’s the opposite. From our rink you can see through the glass to the weather outside, and on a nice day that’s really tough.
We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.
