Efendi competed for Azerbaijan last year and she performed a song called “Mata Hari,” and it was just full black fishnet sparkle. Something that I would wear on the ice.

--Instinct Magazine, "Johnny Weir Hosts Peacock Stream of 2022 Eurovision," Denny Patterson, May 10, 2022

(on Eurovision 2021)

The ruggedness of flannel rarely finds its way onto Olympic ice.

--NBC, men's free program, 2022 Olympics, February 9, 2022

(on Canadian skater Keegan Messing's shirt) 

 

 

Special thank you to Keegan Messing for skating well but more importantly, for wearing flannel.  

--Twitter, February 10, 2022

I have costume fittings today & I just know it’s going to be torturous because my diet hasn’t caught up to my brain yet. The thing about lime green latex though, it hides all of life’s little lumps That is an absolute lie.

--Twitter, June 26, 2021 

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

Tara and I unfortunately are afraid to watch [short track speed skating] live. That's a lot of flying blades and sliding falls. And, you know, blades straight to the face. It's not something I'm really into. We're into sparkles and wardrobe malfunctions, not a violent blade.
--NBC, chat with Mike Tirico on Prime Plus Show, 2018 Olympics, February 18, 2018
("wardrobe malfunctions" refers to French ice dancer Gabriella Papadakis' costume becoming unfastened shortly after her program with partner Guillaume Cizeron began, exposing her breast at one point during their performance)

I’d have to jazz up the costume a little bit, but I definitely think I’d be a very, very adept ski jumper.
--wdtn.com,"Catching up with Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski" video interview by Aaron Nolan, February 10, 2018

I should start performing in mumus to save myself from considering peony petals as a sneaky dinner. #diet
--Twitter, May 16, 2017

Her old costume looked like a prop couch from the set of Saved by the Bell.
--NBC, Tropheé Eric Bompard, short program, broadcast November 15, 2015
(on the short program costume Russian skater Julia Lipnitskaia wore at Skate America 2015)

For me, a great skating costume is a costume that will make photographs; it will be something that you can see on the cover of a magazine. It could be something that you'll have photographs of yourself for the rest of your life, sitting on the medal stand while listening to your national anthem. And you look wonderful. That, to me, is a successful costume. 
--hollywoodreporter.com, "Johnny Weir on His Sochi Outfits: No one is Going to Style Me Better than Me" by Stephanie Chan, February 14, 2014

The sparkle of rhinestones sometimes does distract men, especially our male audience, from seeing what’s actually going on on the ice, which is young people at their height of physical prowess doing something that very few people can do, in the most high-pressure and high-profile level.
--newyorker.com, "X Games on ice" by Tracy O'Neill, June 25, 2015

Love you @jasoncollins98! If you'd ever challenge me to a game, I'll find a way to make our costumes out of rival basketball nets.
--Twitter, May 2, 2015

Blogger's note: Jason Collins is a retired National Basketball Association (NBA) player. He replied to Johnny's tweet:

Is it like a techno-remix of An American in Paris?...Is it with Jay-Z backup vocals?...'Cause I think an updated American in Paris would need that.
--NBC, U.S. Figure Skating Championship Preview Show, January 18, 2015 
(response to Tara Lipinski saying that ice dance partners Madison Cholk and Evan Bates' free dance costumes were appropriate for their "updated" version of An American in Paris)

You know what? I would consider that the hardest part about especially the guys that skate pairs or ice dance, when they skate directly with the girl and touch all over the girl...

[Pete Dominick: Oh yeah, when I watch that, I’m like, How do they do that? I mean, I guess they...]

Oh yeah, they wear tight tight tight pants.

[Pete Dominick: Sure.]

And you can’t hide when something...pops up.
--OutQ SiriusXM, StandUP! with Pete Dominick, October 22, 2014
(on problems of straight male skaters)

I realized that these people will mean absolutely nothing to me. Screw it. I am doing it myself. I am just going to be so good that there is no feasible way they can leave me off of those teams.
--dot429.com, "Johnny Weir Interview: Being Unique & Successful" by Bryan Moore, November 3, 2010 
(on figure skating officials who tried to control everything from his hair and costumes to who coached him)

After a disastrous Cup of China free skate, she got a new dress, probably because the old one had some bad ju-ju.
--NBC, Trophée Eric Bompard, November 23, 2014
(on Julia Lipnitskaya's new free skate costume)  

Decided to stay in and cuddle with the puppy for Halloween. I wear enough costumes, my weave needs a night off.
--Twitter, October 31, 2014
 

If I could celebrate Hallowe'en this year I would go as either a Birkin bag, a Tetris piece or Galina 'Red' Reznikov from @OITNB.
--Twitter, October 29, 2014

Blogger's note: OITNB = Orange is the New Black, a series about a women's prison on Netflix.

Now we have this wonderful disco club bed sheet dress moment.
--NBC, Skate America, ladies free program, October 26, 2014
(on Russian skater Elizaveta Tuktamysheva's costume)

Her skates are one color beige, her tights are another color, her skin is another color, her face is another color and the illusion mesh on her back is another color. She’s rocking about seven different skin tones.
--today.com, "Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski police figure skating fashion," February 14, 2014
 (on Ukrainian pair skater Julia Lavrentieva's Olympic short program costume)

I do have an Olympic-winning costume. That's the closest I'll ever get to an Olympic medal.
--nbcolympics.com, "Olympic-sized nerves take center stage in men's final" by Nicholas McCarvel, February 14, 2014
(on designing Olympic men's gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu's free skate costume)