“I'll always represent Canada. I was born here, and my parents chose to...” — Patrick Chan Quote

I'll always represent Canada. I was born here, and my parents chose to immigrate here. There are so many things I don't see in other countries, I see here. I love having the Maple Leaf behind me.

The lifestyle of Vancouver does seem to really draw me towards there.

Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.

Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.

Every Olympics, we always end up having someone on the podium that we had no idea, or we didn't expect them to be.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I have gone to Niagara-on-the-Lake. You know, Niagara Falls in Canada. It's this cute little quaint town, and it's just warm, and everyone is so nice.

I fought a long time ago in Canada, I fought a Croatian guy, I don't remember his name, but there I had a size advantage. At the end, I explained to him about cutting weight. He didn't know about weight-cutting, so I explained to him, and I was bigger than him at that time.

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.