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I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

— Jeremy Abbott

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

— Patrick Chan

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

— Johnny Weir

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

— Katarina Witt

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

— Oksana Baiul

I want people to see a real person on the ice. I want to seem tangible, hard-working, passionate about my skating, not just going out and doing something I've rehearsed a million times.

— Ashley Wagner

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

— Kim Yuna

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

— Sterling Beaumon

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

— Shaun White

✗Opposing Perspectives

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

— Elvis Stojko

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

— Patrick Chan