Top 90 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Moir

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Scott Moir

Scott Patrick Moir OLY is a Canadian retired ice dancer and coach. With ice dance partner Tessa Virtue, he is the 2010 and 2018 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents champion, the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final champion, an eight-time Canadian national champion, the 2006 World Junior champion and the 2006 Junior Grand Prix champion. Moir and Virtue are also the 2018 Olympic gold medalists in the team event and the 2014 Olympic silver medalists in the team event. Upon winning their third Olympic gold medal, they became the most decorated Canadian ice dance team of all time and the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all time. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ice dance teams of all time, they are the only ice dancers in history to achieve a Super Slam, having won all major international competitions in their senior and junior careers. Virtue and Moir are holders of the world record score for the now-defunct original dance.

I have always enjoyed being a part of a team and benefitting from lifting the spirits of a teammate one day and having them lift yours the next.
You don't win the Olympic to make millions. People are always like, 'Where is your Lamborghini?'
We're very proud of our business relationship, it's been very special for 20 years. Who can say that? It makes me shake my head sometimes driving to the rink, because I'm still excited to see Tessa at the arena for warmup.
For some, sport is just a short chapter of their lives so I am excited to help athletes develop many life skills that they can take with them on their next chapter. — © Scott Moir
For some, sport is just a short chapter of their lives so I am excited to help athletes develop many life skills that they can take with them on their next chapter.
Tessa's hilarious. I think it's one of the things that gets overlooked because she's always so pulled together, but she has the best sense of humor.
Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.
I think golf is more demanding when you're actually good at it.
I would never even think about skating with somebody else. The whole reason I wanted to come back to skating was to be close to Tessa again, and to share those moments.
I want to get back on the international stage. I want to bring in Olympic champions to southwestern Ontario and I want it to be done the right way.
Tessa and I have grown up together. It's hard to explain our relationship because we've gone through so much together. It's so intense. It is so special. You can't really compare it and it's hard for people to understand it.
We had a whole bunch of perks after the Olympic games like having dinner with the Queen of England and being hosted by the Prince of Monaco. We got to drop pucks at hockey games. We got to go on quite a tour.
It's funny to look back - Tessa was seven and I was nine. I remember there wasn't a lot of talking at the beginning. We were terrified to hold hands for quite a while.
People assume because we've been doing this so long that we can hold it together, and that's not the case. It's not easy to get out there with all of the country watching at home.
It's kind of edgy, but you do have this emotional connection to it. It gives you goosebumps, it makes you feel something every day in training. That 'Moulin Rouge' soundtrack does that for us.
It is discouraging a little bit to look up at the board and see that we're about 30 points behind our points goal for a competition. — © Scott Moir
It is discouraging a little bit to look up at the board and see that we're about 30 points behind our points goal for a competition.
In ice dance, the practices are huge. The judges are there, they're talking. Your judge is trying to sell you to the other countries' judges - 'Look at that lift, they have tons of speed' - and you have to be on.
It's motivating to watch younger teams excel.
We don't have to fake the feeling of looking into each other's eyes and feeling something. That's a joy. It's been a joy our whole career.
Obviously, Fred Astaire was a legend. I've tried to copy some of his movements.
Tessa and I, what we'd like to be - it's so hard to evaluate ourselves - when we're training, focusing on things, it's about a man and a woman, what we create between each other, working off each other.
In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.
On a short program, you've got to be tight and you've got to make sure that you get all your points.
We're always telling stories, we're supposed to be reacting, a man and woman on the ice, it's romantic.
We're very passionate about figure skating but it's a huge world out there and there's a lot of opportunity, and it'll be so much fun to see where we go.
We wanted to prove to everybody that we weren't the same old Tessa and Scott, trying to do the same tricks again. We wanted to be different.
If I can inspire at least one per cent to live what I lived being a part of the Canadian Olympic team then I'm very happy with that.
My first love was hockey, but it seemed the more I skated and danced with Tessa, the more I fell in love with the sport.
It's exciting for me as a male to see other guys wanting to be ice dancers.
We love to compete, and I feel like national champion is a title I want to get every year, so to see it going to another team is going to hurt.
We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.
When I'm home, my friends are all coming home from work, their lives are a little more concrete.
To be an Olympian is not flattering for any partner that's with you. It's a really selfish part of your life.
At Skate Canada, we have a history of very professional judging that's very fair, and we're proud of that.
Some days I look at Tessa and I just think this is such a funny little relationship that we have.
If Tessa had a boyfriend, the guy better be really good to her.
I mean, Patrick Chan, you could make the argument he's the best skater that ever was.
Ice dance was a part of my life from a young age. My older brother ice danced and like many younger brothers, I wanted to follow in my older brother's footsteps.
Obviously, the skaters in generations before us didn't have the opportunity to win multiple medals at an Olympic Games. We recognize that.
I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.
You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals. — © Scott Moir
You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals.
What I find about Olympic games is there's so many fantastic stories, and the celebration of sport, and to be involved in that is the honor of our lifetime.
We want to go out and bring the house down. Anything short of that, we get disappointed.
When we think about making the people in the audience happy, or trying to make them feel something, it kind of goes to waste. Usually we have our best skates when we just think about each other, and we just think about being in unison, and think about the program we're trying to do.
It's really tricky to find someone who understands the relationship that Tessa and I have, because it's unique.
I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.
I don't think revenge is enough to fuel the fire it takes to go to an Olympic Games and be successful.
As a coach, I am committed to not only developing well-rounded athletes but also good human beings.
It's hard to slack off when you have these guys out there going 100 miles an hour around the ice.
We knew we made a mistake in 2014. We didn't pick music that was dear to our hearts and weren't personally invested in a program. We vowed to never do that again.
I would say that how we want to be remembered is by inspiring the next generation, and that goes for Canadians and anyone in the world. Hopefully ice dance has come to a new level.
2017 was probably one of the hardest years of my life. There were a lot of personal struggles. I lost some very important people. I had a best friend and then a grandfather pass away. Through it all, skating became an anchor. I used to think of it as a job. Now it was getting me through and giving me hope.
Tess and I have a unique relationship, she is like my younger but way more mature sister. — © Scott Moir
Tess and I have a unique relationship, she is like my younger but way more mature sister.
People always think we have the summer off, but it's the opposite. From our rink you can see through the glass to the weather outside, and on a nice day that's really tough.
Tessa is brilliant in every sense. Everybody should have a Tessa.
We were made for each other, in a work relationship. There's real love there. We're so proud of the business relationship we have.
I've had partners - life partners, that didn't understand it and I felt the pressure of that and took it out on Tessa, or vice versa I'm sure it wasn't peachy to be in a relationship with me.
Actually I prefer brunettes.
When I watch a movie, I want movie stars to be in love too.
People always ask you, 'Are you like brother and sister? Are you like a married couple?' It's really original and it can't really be explained.
'The Seasons' program that really is part of our souls, it tells the story of our relationship of Tessa and Scott and it's a lot of fun for our longtime fans and hopefully for our new fans.
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