I remember Evan came up and he was the first person to hug me after all that happened. He said, "You know, it will be okay. Next year you'll be great." And he was right, I did great the next year. I remember that. I never held him in higher esteem. No matter how many times I lose to him or how many times he loses to me, and whatever courses our lives take, I'll always think of him from then. That wasn't even sportsmanship; that was just a good person. We didn't know each other that well except just being competitors, and that was a loving person. To do that sort of thing and be my competitor. He could have sat back on the couch and laughed at me. And I know a lot of people did. He just gave me a hug and said everything would be okay.
--BLADES on Ice magazine, "Johnny Weir Says What's On His Mind" by Michelle Wojdyla, September - October 2005 issue
(on what happened after his disastrous 2003 U.S. Nationals free skate)