AU Quotes


Some interesting quotes by Alexei Urmanov.


On the International Skating Union:
"The ISU sit together in Congress in the summer and discuss things.
I don't know what they are thinking about, but it is not skating."

On returning to Olympic-eligible skating after his injury:
"Who's afraid of the wolves shouldn't go into the forest."

On being absent from the skating world one season:
"You can say, I gave this season as a present to my rivals."

On remaining eligible, despite competition from younger skaters:
"I don't want to be in the role of the old ballerina, who gets
applause only because it is polite."

On (eventually) departing from eligible skating to the pro ranks:
"I don't want to leave shutting the door loudly behind me or to
sneak out quietly, I want to leave in a nice way."


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The first quotation is from a Reuters article dating January 29, 1999; the other four are from an interview published in the February 1998 edition of Sport Express, written by Maria Savtchenko and translated from Russian. Quotations reproduced without permission. 1