Love Quote by Nancy Kerrigan

There is something almost disarmingly plain about Kerrigan's line, and that plainness is the point. "And I love what I do and I love skating" reads like a reset button: a return to the simplest possible truth after the sport, the media, and the public have tried to complicate her into a character.

As an elite athlete, Kerrigan is speaking from inside a system that constantly demands narrative - rivalry, sacrifice, redemption, scandal. Her specific intent is to reclaim authorship over her own story by steering the conversation away from spectacle and back to craft. The repetition of "love" works like a refusal to litigate motives. She doesn't say she needs skating, or that skating saved her, or that skating defines her. She just loves it. That modest claim is rhetorically savvy because it denies critics and pundits the dramatic hooks they want.

The subtext is also defensive in a way that feels earned: love is being offered as evidence of legitimacy. In sports culture, especially around women athletes, credibility often gets filtered through questions about attitude, likability, gratitude. Kerrigan's phrasing answers those questions without ever dignifying them directly. It's a soft shield.

Context matters, too. Kerrigan's fame wasn't built solely on performance; it was magnified by a media storm that treated figure skating like tabloid theater. In that environment, to insist on loving the work is to demand we look at the ice, not the noise. It's a small sentence that tries to make the spotlight behave.