Apolo Ohno Quotes

I take my craft seriously.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

I have rules for everything.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

Being a ballerina, you don't ever want to show yourself less than perfect, ever. That's what your goal is: 24/7 perfection.

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

You've got to perfect your craft.

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

I have to really work hard at my craft.

For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.

I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.