It just got too hard, honestly. I had the option of choosing a happy life or to be alone for more time and completely alienate everybody and all of my friends and family once again, to diet like crazy, to get yelled at every day. It is all worth it, but there comes a time in your life when you have to decide what's next.
--online.wsj.com, "Sochi Olympics: Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski Sparkle Off the Ice" by Betsy McKay, February 18, 2014
(on his decision to retire)