A white ice skate with red laces rests on a frosty reflective surface against slate blue.

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Peggy Fleming

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker places love of the sport before the desire to please another person. Calling it yours makes participation a matter of personal commitment. The repeated insistence draws a clear boundary between pursuing an activity for oneself and doing it to satisfy someone else's expectations.

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