Elvis Stojko Quotes
"But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Home, Work, Hard work, Training, Want)
"You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Opportunity, Progress, Help, Learning, Want)
"When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Inspiration, Strength)
"Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Injury, Years)
"My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Life, Mom, Music, Dad)
"Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Thought, People, Winning, Chance, Now, Play)
"Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Saying, Style)
"I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Being)
"After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Soul, Inspiration, Direction, Years)
"I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Strength)
"I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that's definitely going to change you - than going out and doing what you do in practice every day."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Change, Day, Practice)
"And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: First, Pressure)
"Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel."
- Elvis Stojko
"All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Age)
"I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Being, Now, Trying, World)
"I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Want)
"A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way."
- Elvis Stojko