1993 Skate Canada - Rod Black: "No wonder this guy is a champion. The guy's dedicated, he's determined, he's a fighter, he has all of those qualities but he also has time for people. You can see the smile, cameras all around him all of the time, just like other skaters in Canada who have the same demands now. This sport had grown in such a wave of popularity. Kurt Browning mentioned in the same breath as people like Wayne Gretsky. It's amazing to me that he's still as patient and as calm and composed and gracious in victory and, at times, even in defeat."

1993 Skate Canada - Louis Stong: "I think he's very easily stimulated by the things around him, like if somebody passes him or says something to him, he looks at them, but I think it's something that gets him pumped up rather than being a distraction."

1994 Canadian Stars on Ice - Kristi Yamaguchi during telecast: "Kurt is someone who has so much energy and is a lot of fun to be with. My skating has been inspired by him."

1994 Canadian Stars on Ice - Josee Chouinard during telecast: "He seems like a very famous person, but when you talk to him, he's a normal person. He has so much love. He helps a lot of people and it comes from the heart. There's so much to say about his personality that he's not only a great champion on the ice, but just a person that everybody likes."

1994 Olympics - after LP: "The last 48 hours have been a collection of highs and lows. I went home after the short, I laughed with my friends, had a beer or two and I got my life into perspective. Everybody that faxed me, almost 2000 faxes came in, they reminded me about what was important. It was family, friends, eight-by-tens and skating. It made it a lot easier to come out tonight and enjoy it. A lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into those faxes and it made me feel really loved. So thanks. That skate was for me and everybody who sent them."

On turning pro: "It's been, for me, like graduating. I've been going to university for 17 years now and I just graduated."

From Forcing the Edge, looking back at '94 Olympic SP: "I fell on a triple flip in the short program. I made a mistake and I lost my edge and I fell. That's skating. But why did I single that double axel at the end? Because I wasn't concentrating. I was feeling sorry for myself. I was thinking about Albertville, for God's sake. And then I did a single. I went. "Omigawd, I think that was a single. It was a single." I wasn't there. I was floating and I got what I deserved. I didn't even know until the next day that I was 12th."

From Forcing the Edge, looking back at '94 Olympics LP: "I had a great long. I absolutely had to. I knew it was going to be my last amateur skate. And in this particular situation, I really had no choice but to skate well. Because just the way people are going to look at me would be changed forever, and all that hard work I went through to win four World titles would be sort of, you know, tainted if I didn't pull off a great long program."

• Kurt worked as a color commentator for NBC, and went to the 1994 Worlds as a commentator rather than a competitor.
• Kurt's TV special, "You Must Remember This," aired on CBC on Feb. 6, 1994. The special was choreographed by Sandra Bezic and directed by Joan Tosoni. It featured one of Kurt's most famous numbers, "Singing in the Rain," performed in pouring rain on a re-creation of the set from the movie. The second half of the show was a mini film-noir called "The Big Sleep," with Kurt playing a Humphrey Bogart-esque private detective alongside characters played by Kristi Yamaguchi, Josee Chouinard, Christine Hough, and Doug Ladret. This special won five Gemini Awards.
• Kurt announced his retirement on March 2, 1994
• Fans sent their gold to Nova Scotia to make Kurt his own gold medal after the 94 Olympics. It was made by goldsmith Donald Bell and was an 18 karat gold maple leaf with $20,000 worth of gold in it. One lady whose mother recently passed sent in her mother's ring, saying she was a huge Kurt fan. Awarded to him in Halifax, he returned the favor by giving a check for $5000 for Muscular Dystrophy.

• JennaAnn