“But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness…”

“Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.”

“Great achievements require gigantic efforts, without which our progress sounds to be slow.”

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”

“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.”

““I believe – and this is the case not only for figure skating but for other forms of art including ballet and musicals as well – that this artistry is very much based on having the correct technique and a strong foundation at the core of everything. It is upon these that the artistry is built, and without that strong foundation and that basis in technique, it is not possible to have that full artistry required as well.””

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”

“Superior technical achievements — used correctly both strategically and tactically — can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.”

“Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”