Quotes by Tessa Virtue - Page 2

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.
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Fortune
Good Fortune
Live Music
Good Music Always
Creates
Dynamic
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Hydration is a key thing, as an athlete yes, but also for your skin, and I do notice the biggest difference when I stay hydrated.
Tessa Virtue /
Biggest Difference
Notice
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I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.
Tessa Virtue /
France
Months
French
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My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.
Tessa Virtue /
Chance
Book
Good Book
Nice
Reading
Good Chance Always
Cottage
Crashing
Hear
Lake
Waves
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As women, we're busy. We're under stress and under pressure, and the expectations are so high for us, so the first thing to go is self-care.
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Busy
Expectations
Pressure
Stress
High
First Thing
The First Thing
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When I'm not on the ice, I do interval work on the bike or the elliptical, trying to mimic a four-minute routine. But it doesn't come close.
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Bike
Ice
Routine
Interval
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You have your best workouts when you go in thinking you don't want to do it, because you're so satisfied with your own determination and grit.
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Determination
Grit
Satisfied
Best Thinking Your
Workouts
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I want to ensure that I'm sending the right messages and that I'm empowering others, and doing things that feel like they're in line with my values.
Tessa Virtue /
Empowering
Messages
Ensure
Sending
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At all times, there's discussion about the percentage of body fat I have, how I look on the ice and about how much skin a certain costume is showing.
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Body Fat
Discussion
Ice
Costume
Percentage
Showing
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I do feel different whether I'm in the gym or on the ice when I have a cute outfit on. I think most girls can relate - you carry yourself differently.
Tessa Virtue /
Cute
Ice
Outfit
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There's no easy way to the top of anything, but it's a lot of hard work and I feel maybe I have the confidence in that recipe, or the confidence in myself.
Tessa Virtue /
Easy Way
Work Myself Hard Work
Recipe
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It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.
Tessa Virtue /
Ballroom
Ice
Speed
Technique
Blade
Glide
Hip
Motion
Onto
Proper
Transfer
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The more people feel comfortable to showcase that and the more we highlight that as a visibility for young girls to see and look up to - I think that's better.
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Showcase
Visibility
Look Better People
Highlight
More People
Young Girls
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A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.
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Partnership
Remarkable
Invested
Portray
Resonate
Themes
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It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.
Tessa Virtue /
Discouraged
Funny Love Good
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We found our joy in being athletes in PyeongChang. Our biggest joy was being on the ice. Every moment revolved around just what it would take to win the Olympics.
Tessa Virtue /
Ice
Olympics
Athletes
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There are many things I love about my job! For instance, as a creative outlet, there's no better way to express myself than through choreography and physical movement.
Tessa Virtue /
Choreography
Instance
Better Way
Love Myself Better
Creative Outlet
Outlet
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Hair and makeup has become part of my pre-competition routine. It's a quiet time, when I can reflect, I can put on some music - and I can mentally get in the zone of performance.
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Quiet Time
Routine
Zone
Mentally
Reflect
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When we're choreographing, we're on the ice five or six hours a day. The setting for your skin is just horrendous - the stress and the competition makeup and the training itself.
Tessa Virtue /
Ice
Setting
Horrendous
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Ultimately, and I can appreciate this as I get older, those quirks and those differences are what I find so attractive about other people, that's what I think being beautiful is.
Tessa Virtue /
Attractive
Being Beautiful
Differences
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You're never going to regret working out or being active. You might regret not doing it, you might regret pressing that snooze button, but you'll never regret getting physically active.
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Never Regret
Regret
Physically
Button
Pressing
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We're in a pressure-filled sport for sure, but anything in an Olympic season is heightened, the highs are higher and the lows are lower, and everything just takes on grander proportions.
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Grander
Highs
Olympic
Proportions
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There's something about an Olympic Games and representing Canada and being part of that greater team, so when we're 70, we'll be wanting to be Olympians still. That stays with you, I think.
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Canada
Olympic Games
Representing
Olympians
Stays
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I have a muscular build and I've learned to embrace that because it's makes me strong, giving me speed and power on the ice. It's a different kind of femininity - one that doesn't fit the norm.
Tessa Virtue /
Femininity
Ice
Norm
Speed
Different Kind
Muscular
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When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.
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Express Yourself
Muscles
Instrument
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Everyone has those insecurities, everyone doubts themselves but it's how we handle that as humans and as people and how we support one another and how we really embrace the things that make us unique.
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Handle
Doubts
Insecurities
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Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.
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Downs
Sacrifices
Ups
Ups And Downs
Wonderful Thing
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I think that's the beauty of the Olympics. There's always a story. There's always someone you're invested in. There are so many Olympic moments that resonate with people all across Canada, and I think that's the beauty of it.
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Canada
Beauty Always People
Invested
Olympic
Resonate
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I joined the Young Philanthropists Circle at the Musee Des Beaux Arts, we have little events every month where you learn about a different artist and you see the exhibit and you get an inside an inside look at the technique used.
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Technique
Circle
Exhibit
Joined
Philanthropists
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For athletes, it is unhealthy to be one-sport focused, especially at a young age. I believe in exposing kids to lots of activities - there are great advantages to being a well-rounded athlete and human, no matter the field of play.
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Exposing
Unhealthy
Well Rounded
Young Age
Activities
Advantages
Athletes
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Women in figure skating, like in every other industry, are expected to conform to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Unhealthy habits are often encouraged to promote a thin frame, and young girls idealize a skewed definition of 'fit.'
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Conform
Expected
Figure Skating
Skating
Unhealthy
Definition
Encouraged
Figure
Frame
Habits
Idealize
Standard
Promote
Skewed
Thin
Young Girls
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Understanding my worth in the market is part of my job, and ensuring I am valued is important to me. I love negotiating, and do so frequently for contracts. I am fair and reasonable, but willing to walk away if a deal cannot be struck.
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Contracts
Negotiating
Reasonable
Love Walk Me
Ensuring
Valued
Frequently
Struck
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We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there's been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that's why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.
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Amazing
History
Sports
Canada
Grew
Legacy
Long
Olympics
Rich
Stand
Why
Athletes
Before
Believing
Could
Helped
Pave
Podium
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My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.
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Amazing
Comfort
Comfort Food
Grandmother
Leftovers
Memories
Taste
Tradition
Used
Almost
Carried
Chicken
Dish
Incredible
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Part of being an athlete is constantly striving for more. We're looking for perfection in a world where that doesn't exist. No matter what we do and what we accomplish or how we perform, we're always looking at areas we can improve upon.
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Accomplish
Striving
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I was so lucky. I grew up with an incredibly strong grandmother, mother and sister. All three, independent, fierce, clever women who were hard workers, had goals and visions for themselves, and were really ambitious. And, they didn't apologize for those goals.
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Sister
Women
Clever
Grew
Hard
Lucky
Mother
Strong
Three
Workers
Had
Apologize
Those
Incredibly
Themselves
Visions
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We have the opportunity to make people feel something, feel some emotion, and then also we get to be just pure athletes, and from a pure technical standpoint do things are really technically demanding, and very challenging. So it's that balance between the two that we love. And we love to play with the limits and push ourselves.
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Pure
Standpoint
Athletes
Demanding
Technically
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I couldn't believe just how emotional I was about the London Olympics. Before the Games even started, I was reading a newspaper sitting in a hair salon and my mom looked over at me and I was just sobbing, because something about seeing the rings and hearing the athletes' excitement and just kind of knowing exactly what they were going through.
Tessa Virtue /
Excitement
Olympics
Rings
Mom Believe Me
Athletes
Exactly What
Just Kind
Newspaper
Salon
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