When I was watching the men’s event the other night and nobody was skating as if they wanted to win the gold medal, I wanted to jump out of the booth. I kept poking Tara and it was hard to watch because I knew that my level of competition, even when I was retiring in the fall, that I could have competed with those guys.
--usatoday.com, "Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski sound off about 'the little girl' and the women's field" by Gary Mihoces, February 19, 2014
(on the Sochi Olympics men's free program)