John Nicks Good Quotations

We have an understanding of what is good for her and what produces good results.

She's been very much more mature and trained very hard. Tonight was a good start. It was a very good start. But it was only a start.

I thought she still had a chance (after her imperfect program). I've been around a long time, seen a lot of mistakes made. I think it's obvious the standard of skating overall was not particularly good, definitely not as good as the short program.

It's been quality, not quantity. We've been working harder, not longer. Today for her was a good start, a very good start, but it was only a start.

Not that they don't have wonderful skaters, but when I look at the results from some of the junior competitions, I'm not seeing the depth now that I used to see. So I have a question as to when this current crop of Russian skaters are finished whether they'll be as strong. Originally, the (Soviet) system was to assign a wonderful coach to perhaps one or two wonderful competitors and government would reimburse the coaches. Once that was removed, there was anticipation that this method wouldn't continue to produce any good skaters. So far it's been wrong. We'll see in the future.

It was a good start. But it was just a start.