It's sorta like when you're young and you say, "Hey mom, look, no hands!" when you're riding your bike. It's that kind of difficulty added to a skating jump.
--USA channel, men's short, 4 Continents Championship, February 10, 2023

(on jumps with arms overhead rather than tight against the skater's chest)

Imagine like a dewy mossy field--or a pitch--on a Saturday morning. Imagine this just mob of children, running all in one direction. And wait! What's that we see out of the corner of our eye? It's the one child running the wrong way from the rest of the team. And that was me. That's how good a football player I was.

--Men in Blazers, 11/25/22: Live in Philadelphia, podcast

 

 

Blogger's note: pitch = soccer field; football = soccer

This moment when there are technical glitches with the computers and things like that are so uncomfortable, when you're the one left out on the ice, it's kind of like you're the one who showed up to grade school wearing a Halloween costume and no one else has one on. And everyone can see you.
--NBCSN, Skate America, men's free skate, October 18, 2019

Something important I'd tell my 18 year old self is that being bitchy isn't that cute if you're an idiot about it.
--Twitter, July 26, 2016

I wasn't afraid of other kids because--very much like other band geeks and drama freaks, and all those people in school--I understood that some day they'd wash my car.
--NBC, Access Hollywood, February 17, 2014
(on high school bullying)

First fragrance:

Obsession by Calvin Klein. I wore it because it was different from what the other kids were wearing and felt very rich for a dude of 13. It was far too masculine for me but I felt happy to smell nice.
--fragrance.org, "The Latest Foundation Five: Johnny Weir," June 10, 2015

[Nick McCarvel: What year was your first senior Nationals?...]

2001, Boston, I popped a triple axel in the short, and I won America's heart in the long because I was young. And cute.
--icenetwork.com, "How Much Does Johnny Weir Know About Johnny Weir?" video, Bank of America Special Olympics Showcase at Bryant Park, February 24, 2015

[Cowboy: Haven't you all see a wild west stunt show before?]

No...We didn't have childhoods.
--NBC, Super Bowl Zone, January 31, 2015
(after he and Tara Lipinski wandered by a "shootout" at the Rawhide Western Town)

It isn’t just a gay sport. I mean, I believe me, I looked high and low for somebody else that would understand me, and there were very few choices. The...most of the guys are straight, and, you know, they like beer, not champagne, and they like...they like boobs. And it’s weird for me, because part of the allure of figure skating was the, you know, gay men that I'd heard about my whole time growing up, but, you know, it’s kind of a disappointment...
--OutQ SiriusXM, StandUP! with Pete Dominick, October 22, 2014

[Pete Dominick: I'm not a big fan of competition period.]

Why?

[Pete Dominick: For a number of reasons.]

What happened to you when you were young? Show me on the doll where the bad man touched you.
-OutQ SiriusXM, StandUP! with Pete Dominick, October 22, 2014

I never wanted to be normal. I never wanted to be the kid that kind of fell in line with the rest of the crowd.
--youtube.com, EPIX video, "To Russia with Love--Johnny and His Mom," uploaded September 21, 2014

[What has your experience with 'Be Good Johnny Weir' been?]

I think the reality series is a great growing experience for me. Since I was young, I worked with my trainer, Priscilla Hill, by re-watching things I had done, by her filming my practice. I would re-watch it after and this show is kind of the same premise, except it's my videos. It's my home movies and I can go back and I can look at things and see what happened and how it could have been avoided and what kind of drama there was surrounding it, and that's a beautiful thing
--popeater.com, “Johnny Weir Never Leaves the House Without a Balenciaga Bag” by Denise Warner, March 11, 2010

Plaid might be the ticket. I feel like that's really hunter and really going back to my Pennsylvania roots.
--NBC, Access Hollywood, "Johnny Gets Ready," February 12, 2014
(picking out a shirt to wear to go fishing in the Black Sea with Billy Bush)

It's only takes one two hour long call to Comcast to realize I never want to grow up.
--Twitter, December 10, 2013

Blogger's note: "It's" as in original tweet.

I was raised Catholic and as an adult have enjoyed a spiritual sluttiness that has helped me appreciate the good in most religions.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: The Horah" November 28, 2013

Seventeen years ago, a sunny day came along where the ice that covered a bleak cornfield glistened in the late afternoon sun. Seventeen years ago, my feet were covered for the first time by leather and steel. Seventeen years ago, I took my first step onto the ice, in the most unlikely of circumstances, yet dressed head to toe in dreams.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: The Ice" October 23, 2013
(on retiring from competitive skating)

It will be a long time until I wake up in the morning not imagining that I’m late for practice, and in addition to never forgetting the sheer magic of giving my heart and soul to the world, I will never forget the smell of the air, the glint of the sun on the slippery surface, or the feelings I had 17 years ago on that cornfield.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: The Ice" October 23, 2013
(on retiring from competitive skating)

Growing up skinny, socially awkward and with a weird craft, I always wanted to be cool. I always wanted to be popular and I dreamt constantly of being like Justin, Joey, Lance, Chris and J.C. from *NSYNC, of being a star. I wasn’t prepared however, for the flip-side of popularity. I wasn’t prepared that everything you say will have a 50/50 response, that complete strangers hate you for no reason aside from the fact that you didn’t believe the same things they did. I wasn’t prepared.

--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: Popular" September 19, 2013

There’s a lot in my closet. I’ve been collecting things since I was five. I’m definitely a pack rat. I’m not a hoarder, but I’m definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment. I’m only 25, but 20 years of stuff is a lot of stuff as far as fashion is concerned.
--EW.com, "Johnny Weir on 'Closet Confessions' and possible 'Dancing With the Stars' future: 'I think it would be great if I won and Evan [Lysacek] wasn't able to win'" by Breia Brissey, June 29, 2010

[Joan Rivers asks Johnny how he started figure skating at 12.]

I was growing up in Amish County Pennsylvania.

[Joan: Are you Amish?]

I'm not Amish.

[Joan: That must have been difficult.]

Or these lights would be way too much for me.

[Kelly Osbourne: Only candlelight for you.]

Only candlelight and butter churning.
--E! (TV channel), Fashion Police, "Fash Fabness," March 29, 2013