Quotes by Alexei Mishin

“There is nothing new about, that we do that quite often.”

“In Salt Lake City, we stayed with them on one floor. It was very distracting.”

“We asked to live separately because the pair skaters will finish their competition on Monday and it will be very noisy because theyll celebrate. In Salt Lake City we stayed with them and it was very distracting.”

“Russian women are not very good for figure skating. They are good for building rail tracks in Siberia, for example. They are just too strong and big.”

“Life is changing, a person is changing.”

“Maybe Russia doesnt have such rich stores of reserve like before, but hope does not die. Russian skating will survive and thrive. What the West does not understand is that you dont need so much talented skaters as you need smart coaches. A smart coach can find a good athlete and make him great. In America, there are millions of talented athletes, but still they dont win top medals because they dont know how to make the champions.”