"I've got a lot of silvers in different shoeboxes in storage units all over the place. But I think the gold one will have a special place."
-Sasha on her gold medal at Nationals 2006
"I think years ago I used to cry, but I think I've used up all my tears. I'm disappointed, and I look at it from outside myself, much more logically, and just try to take the helpful steps. It's not going to help me to cry, it's about figuring out what I need to do better."
-Sasha on her disappointment at the Worlds in 2006
"I hope to do really emotional, amzing performances that really stick in people's minds and be something people really appreciate. I also would like to have all my hard work pay off when it counts."
-Sasha to IFS 2005
“Ultimately when you are out there on the ice, it is up to you. You are the only one out there. I think I really needed to come back into my own again. Once I learned how to train and how to prepare, I really like answering to myself and knowing it is me that is going to make it happen.”
-Sasha to IFS 2005
“Every time I read fan mail, or a little girl asks me to sign a skate or draws a picture for me, it really brings me back down to earth. You forget about a triple lutz and you really appreciate the fact these people appreciate what you do.”
-Sasha to IFS 2005
"I decided I was going to the Olympics. It never occured to me that I wouldn't. It wasn't like, 'Oh, I hope I make it.' I just knew one day I would go."
-Sasha on the Olympics
"I would like to win but mostly keep being there for myself, to get a little more confidence and trust in myself. I've got lots of goals."
-Sasha to IFS
"I wanted to skate a clean program; I did that but I never imagined I would come out on the top."
-Sasha after her 2000 Nationals Short Program
"Oh, she's been a great role model for me and so have many other ladies skaters in the past...I skate with her sometimes and I've just learned so much."
-Sasha on Michelle Kwan
"Which camera?"
-Sasha in the Kiss and Cry after her Olympic Short program
"He seemed caring and really into being there."
-Sasha on George W. Bush at the Opening Ceremonies
"When I'm at the end of a season, I look to the next season and I think, I want to win everything next year. I've been doing that for the last few years."
-Sasha to IFS
"I can look at not winning everything as failure, but from the first year I was a senior, I've improved so much in every single year- in huge amounts. I have to be happy with that. One of these years it will go as I planned."
-Sasha to IFS
"I'd like to cause a little riot in skating."
-Sasha to a reporter
"It makes me step back and say, wow- the worst thing that can happen to a skater is to fall, and there are men and women out there making the world safer."
-Sasha on the war
Quotes On Sasha
"She has a beautiful body, beautiful smile, angelic face and she has the most beautiful body lines I've seen in skating next to John Curry. They are pure and look natural not taught. She has incredible extension. The technique is there."
-Peggy Fleming
"She has a one hundred percent Russian soul. A talent like her comes only once in maybe 15 years. She can make an audience hold its breath. Her skating can touch feelings, like high art."
-Tatiana Tarasova
"It's impossible for her to get into an awkward position even when she falls."
-John Nicks
"I was intrigued by how she's such an artistic, elegant young lady, but she still has a competitive, agressive spirit. She's a very unique person whose talents transcend the technical elements."
-John Nicks
"She skates like a butterfly but stings like a bee."
-Dick Button
"I really earn my money coaching this one!"
-John Nicks(Sasha's Coach)
"She's got a mind of her own."
-Terry Gannon
"She has the best body line, I think since John Curry. Very ballet oriented."
-Peggy Fleming
"She is exquisite!"
-Dick Button
"By far the most exquisite I've ever seen"
-Susie Wynne
"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful."
-Scott Hamilton
"Her back is so exquisitely perfect. It is so flat, you could iron a shirt on her back and it would come out perfectly."
-Dick Button
"She's adorable, she's adorable. She has the best stretch, the best position, the best line than anyone I've seen in years... She just does it with such a flair."
-Dick Button
"Well she's definitely going to be a skater to deal with in the future."
-Peggy Fleming
"You always look for certain styles and what may play in certain areas of the world and Sasha Cohen plays anywhere."
-Terry Gannon
"Sasha is certainly the one to be carrying the future of American skaters. She is just exquisite on the ice. I adore her skating. If she can get a hold on her consistency, if she can perform two solid programs for the competition, then she is almost unbeatable."
-Kristi Yamaguchi
“What I like about her is she is aggressive and spunky. She has a real life about her skating. You do not always see that in people. Some skaters are so serious, so traditional and focused. She has that but she has the other side as well.”
-Tara Lipinski