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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Art
Sports
Figure Skating
Skating
Sport
Mixture
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I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
I Can
Long
Skating
Maintain
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Motivational
Money
Sports
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The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Desire
Long
Long Time
Time Long Long Time
Compete
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Bigs
Mountain
Needs
Me Person Who
Climb
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Athlete
East
East Germany
Firsts
Germany
Allowed
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It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Running
Work
Elegant
Hard Work
Looks
Program
Work Hard Work Look
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Men
Balls
Every Man
Looks
Rubber
Man Look Woman
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Running
Coffee
Surfing
Cup
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I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Matter
Win Or Lose
Winning
Lose
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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Inspirational
Sports
Basketball
Ice
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Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Silver
Silver Platter
Nothing
Almost
Almost Nothing
Platter
Presented
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Athlete
Winning
Proved
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Attention
Empty
Ice
Needs
Always Never Attention
Rink
Skate
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Block
Focus
Goal
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Needed
People
Support
People Support Who
Deliver
Depend
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Hard Work
Sometimes
Want
Success Best Work
Haunts
Work Hard
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Lifetime
Mountain
Sunrise
Want
Such Things
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I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Flower
One Day
World
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Ice
Outsiders
Profession
Years
Chose
Outsider
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Teacher
Class
Years
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When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Dream
Athlete
Breathe
Thinking
Best World Live
Bubble
Certain Level
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Athlete
Support
Trying
Competitive
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Competition
Feet
Serious
Backs
Injuries
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Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Ice
Nervous
Competitions
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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Nervous
Sick
Life Enough Always
Compete
Skate
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Arms
Feelings
Losing
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As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Sports
Athlete
Driven
Fame
Fortune
Passion
Something Special
Drawn
Fame And Fortune
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Faces
Love Work See
Smiling
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When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Next Day
Next Week
Thinking
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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Long Term
Ahead
Injuries
Threaten
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
Katarina Witt / Figure Skater
Eastern
Germany
Skater
Stranger
Unemployment
Even Now
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