Rena Inoue Quotations

We're glad we came here. We got a lot of stuff out of this competition. We had some improvements in the short program. In the long, definitely the (U.S. championships) was a lot better, but we're just going to work harder when we get home.

It is more complicated because he takes off backward and I have to take off forward.

Our long program at nationals was definitely better than today's, but still it wasn't that bad when we looked at the monitors and saw our elements. I took a hard fall, but I got up and got going and tried to put it behind.

It felt fantastic, just what I wanted. It's a fantastic feeling.

It felt fantastic, it worked out exactly how I pictured it.

You just keep working on it until you get it.

We have a lot more we want to accomplish. Our team has a lot more to do and have not reached our top. It was exciting to accomplish our goal this year.

I wanted to do something special, something no one else could do. We finally did it.

Forget it. This is not going to work.

It just happened to be just the way we wanted -- just the way we pictured that we wanted to do out there. This is a fantastic feeling. As a matter of fact he threw me really, really well so it was a little easier to control up in the air and land.

The guy has to track the girl right and throw her right and everything. It is nothing different from a lot of the throws.