It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.
Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!
Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
There's a lot of emotions that always come out after a skate of a lifetime. I always start crying because there is so much buildup to that competition.
I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.
I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.
You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances.
I just know that all my fans who are with me and going along for the ride, that's what means the most to me.
Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.
I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.
Birds Fly in the Sky, because they don't know how to Cry! They know just one thing, to Sing!-RVM
Life is like a beautiful bird that comes to your hand. If you let it go, it will fly into the sky, never to return.-RVM
After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'
There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
