Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes

• This experience has been once in a lifetime.

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• With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we’ve seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

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• Winning in women’s singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done – the hard work, the tough times – was all worth it.

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  Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

   

  Kristi Yamaguchi

• They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

• There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you’re invincible.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

• The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

• The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

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• Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they’d support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.

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• Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

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• One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

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• Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

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• My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

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• In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They’re every four years and it’s such a small group.

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• I’ve realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don’t want to get injured because then I can’t take care of my kids.

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• I’ve had a lot more fun with the training.

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• I’ve always worked closely with the designers and whoever’s making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you’re competing. In an ideal situation, you’ll have something where you’ll put it on and you’re fine and you don’t have to worry about it at all.

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• I’m kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that’s just how I am.

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• I’m always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

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• I’d try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn’t always work.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristi Yamaguchi (37)

Birth:	12th July, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	-

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