birnasan

"It doesn't matter whether I am confident or not, whether I am good or not, but whether I am serious about what I want to do. I think it's whether or not I want to do it."

"I had the feeling that until the Beijing Olympics, my nine-year-old self would say to me, 'You can do more' or 'Don't be so weak at that point'. But after I finished as an amateur and turned pro, I don't think about that so much anymore. Maybe it's because I'm no longer bound by evaluations that I'm able to say to myself, 'I'm better than I used to be' about my skating."

(Aera Special Edition)