Alexei Mishin Quotations

Maybe Russia doesn't 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 don't 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 don't win top medals because they don't know how to make the champions.

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

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

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.

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