Top 60 Johnny Weir Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You only live once. Life is a show.”

— Johnny Weir

2. “Out of ugly, make something beautiful.”

— Johnny Weir

3. “Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody’s a robot. Nobody’s perfect.”

— Johnny Weir

4. “We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’”

— Johnny Weir

5. “To me, skating should look effortless even when you’re doing the hardest of elements.”

— Johnny Weir

6. “I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I’m a strong person and a strong individual. And that’s what I take with me every day.”

— Johnny Weir

7. “To me, figure skating is an art form, and that’s what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.”

— Johnny Weir

8. “If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.”

— Johnny Weir

9. “I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.”

— Johnny Weir

10. “Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.”

— Johnny Weir

11. “Nothing shocks me anymore. I’ve embraced men in thongs, I’ve embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying ‘fierce.’”

— Johnny Weir

12. “I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that’s why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.”

— Johnny Weir

13. “I’m different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.”

— Johnny Weir

14. “It’s really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won’t. But I’m strong enough to deal with that. I own that I’m freakish in my way.”

— Johnny Weir

15. “I’m going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.”

— Johnny Weir

16. “I definitely feel like I’m more of an artist than an athlete. But I’m good at both.”

— Johnny Weir

17. “Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.”

— Johnny Weir

18. “Figure skating is theatrical. It’s artistic. It’s elegant. It’s extremely athletic. And there’s a very specific audience for that.”

— Johnny Weir

19. “Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that’s why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.”

— Johnny Weir

20. “There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.”

— Johnny Weir

21. “It’s easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.”

— Johnny Weir

22. “I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and I’m glad I learned from it.”

— Johnny Weir

23. “When you are an athlete, it’s difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.”

— Johnny Weir

24. “I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.”

— Johnny Weir

25. “My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, ‘Thank you for representing us,’ and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that’s been amazing.”

— Johnny Weir

26. “I’m going to be a happy housewife. I’m going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.”

— Johnny Weir

27. “The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?”

— Johnny Weir

28. “I’ve held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That’s my fashion stepchild.”

— Johnny Weir

29. “I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.”

— Johnny Weir

30. “Some people eat, some people drink, some people smoke. I Pledge.”

— Johnny Weir

31. “I’d say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It’s my style. I can’t classify it as anything else.”

— Johnny Weir

32. “In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can’t be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.”

— Johnny Weir

33. “In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can’t really be applied to a nine-to-five.”

— Johnny Weir

34. “I don’t want to spend my life on an ice cube.”

— Johnny Weir

35. “I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It’s an amazing feeling.”

— Johnny Weir

36. “Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it’s all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.”

— Johnny Weir

37. “I have a whole fur closet. I’m not afraid of PETA.”

— Johnny Weir

38. “I’m a tough person. I wasn’t afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they’d wash my car.”

— Johnny Weir

39. “Figure skating is a bit dated – it’s like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I’m going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.”

— Johnny Weir

40. “I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.”

— Johnny Weir

41. “Anytime you get men in glitter, it’s a flamboyant occasion!”

— Johnny Weir

42. “It’s of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn’t make me a better athlete, it doesn’t make me a stronger person, it doesn’t really do anything to enhance my life. It’s just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.”

— Johnny Weir

43. “The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they’re especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don’t prove yourself and you don’t skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.”

— Johnny Weir

44. “I’m a huge fur fan; it’s no secret to anyone anymore.”

— Johnny Weir

45. “I’ve always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.”

— Johnny Weir

46. “I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you’d see how necessary it is.”

— Johnny Weir

47. “I drink Vitamin Water nonstop – I should have an IV.”

— Johnny Weir

48. “I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man.”

— Johnny Weir

49. “I’m not commercial, I’m not for Special K cereal and I’m not a Wheaties boy; I’m a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.”

— Johnny Weir

50. “Don’t bring a prop. It’s almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are.”

— Johnny Weir