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" Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints. "
Patrick Chan
Body
Tough
Think
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" Skating has given me so many opportunities. "
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Given
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" In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives. "
Patrick Chan
Baseball
Limit
Like
" I carry a lot of muscle easily. "
Patrick Chan
Easily
Lot
Muscle
" I'm not a big traveller. "
Patrick Chan
Big
Traveller
" I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey. "
Patrick Chan
Kid
Hockey
Golf
" I'll always represent Canada. I was born here, and my parents chose to immigrate here. There are so many things I don't see in other countries, I see here. I love having the Maple Leaf behind me. "
Patrick Chan
Me
Love
Leaf
" I hope that people will one day look back at my skating and what I brought to the table. 'Remember when Patrick skated like this? Or remember when skating was like this?' That would be a cool legacy to leave behind. "
Patrick Chan
Cool
People
Look
" I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something. "
Patrick Chan
Feel
You
Video Games
" I can't count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I've done and how many world championships I've been to, so I think I've really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect. "
Patrick Chan
Think
Experience
Hands
" I can do all my jumps in practice, three in a row, five out of five, four out of five. "
Patrick Chan
I Can
Out
Practice
" Even when I'm winning, hands-down the best, it's a struggle. I'm thinking, 'Oh, God! Just get me through this.' It's like surgery. "
Patrick Chan
Best
God
Winning
" I get mad at my mom. I really wish she'd put me into hockey. I'm not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He's unbelievable. He's small, but he's so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good. "
Patrick Chan
Small
Good
Me
" I have a good idea of how lucky we are to be growing up in Canada. "
Patrick Chan
Canada
Good
Growing
" Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to be. "
Patrick Chan
Idea
Up
Always
" When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it. "
Patrick Chan
Loved
Baby
Born
" My skating brought me to a level of being well known in Canada, but I've grown up having trained in the U.S. I haven't lost my roots in Canada thanks to the little rpminders again when I come home: People thanking me for what I do and for representing Canada in the world stage. "
Patrick Chan
World
Home
Lost
" I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers. "
Patrick Chan
Born
Parents
Me
" I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself. "
Patrick Chan
Myself
Proud
Thoughts
" Quads are very exciting to watch, but they're so quick, and they're very short moments in the program... I don't really enjoy it. "
Patrick Chan
Short
Watch
Enjoy
" If I ever got in the way of Kurt Browning or Elvis Stojko, and they got mad and yelled at me, I'd be, 'Oh my God! I'm so sorry!' "
Patrick Chan
Got
Way
Sorry
" I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity. "
Patrick Chan
Eternity
Canada
Hockey
" There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after. "
Patrick Chan
Feeling
Sports
Video Games
" If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete. "
Patrick Chan
You
Look
Government
" I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it. "
Patrick Chan
Game
You
Work
" I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport. "
Patrick Chan
Want
Legacy
Leave
" I'm not good at multitasking. "
Patrick Chan
Good
" Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually. "
Patrick Chan
Know
Hard
Will
" I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome. "
Patrick Chan
Hope
Win
Two
" In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs. "
Patrick Chan
Parents
Training
Trying
" I have so much to give to skating in Canada. "
Patrick Chan
Skating
Much
Give