(April 21 2019)
Averbukh (to Liza Kulikova): Now I'm your prince! I'll go away later. Your prince will be younger.
Yagudin: Liza, you are a kid. At heart I'm a kid too - no lie. Yet Ilia Averbukh chose a very adult story for your program. Do you understand what were you skating about?
Liza: I do.
Yagudin: You do? OK.
Yagudin: Tell me, please, Veronika... when I was a kid - many years ago - once I tried to close my eyes in jumping. I crashed down. You were not only in glasses, you were also in darkness, but you've managed to jump 2A. Was it scaring to try?
Veronika: No.
Yagudin: I see. Alexei Nikolaevich, was it scaring to watch?
Mishin: You know, when a figure skater executes multi revolution jumps, his eyes don't participate in this process, because the line speed of an object in a fast turning would be hundreds of kilometres an hour - a human eye isn't able to perceive anything in such conditions. A skater should feel time. As for the girl, she is remarkable: her jumps are high, she turns rapidly.
(to Veronika) Yet you know, fallings are unlike the school where you study. That's all what I'd like to say to you.
Yagudin: Oh. Everything is wonderful in your skating, but you'd better skate with no falls. OK? Are you disappointed? You can say it.
Veronika: No.
Yagudin: "No." Well, maybe fallings are unlike the school where you train, but I see you also believe you shouldn't get disappointed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKCUDBeKmsY&t=5m28s
/.../
Mikheeva: I know your mom is a coach. What do you think, did she like your skate today?
Veronika: Yes.
Mikheeva: Who is tougher as a coach: your mom or Ilya Izyaslavich?
Veronika: My mom.
Alisa: I really like Ilya Averbukh. His eyes are kind, he never rags. And he is very cheerful.
/.../
Averbukh: Actually, a coach shouldn't be kind, of course. Yet this is a TV project. We want artistic talents to blossome. So I try to create confidence in trainings.
/.../
Yagudin (when Alisa has to leave): To be disappointed or not to be - you can always decide for yourself. Yet I'll tell you a story - from my childhood, about my work and my trainings. There was a girl, she was born in the same year when I was, for some period of time she has been doing more than I could do, in trainings and at competitions - yet later that girl disappeared, and I still skate. So just forget what happened today. You are lovely indeed: not only as a girl, but as a skater as well. You already have triples, go on working - and... who knows what the future holds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dYKlgH-UZk&t=30m19s
To say the truth, he did his best for the first girl who had to leave. He didn't have a new story for every skater he had to see off...
Kostomarov: So what is your name?
Justina: Justina.
Kostomarov: Justina! I guess you know my name?
Justina nods
Kostomarov (about Staviski): What about him? Do you know his name? No?
(laughs)
Staviski: You are not the first one who doesn't. Even he doesn't know my name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8285lFm2Bgg
Justina: I have a partner in this number. At first I was afraid of it, so I had to take it home. Later I got used to it and wasn't afraid anymore, we have reached a common understanding.
/.../
Yagudin: Justina, well done! Really. Let's forget... there was no falling, I didn't see it. It seems to me Adelina Sotnikova didn't see that falling too, because she was applauding to you after your skating! Adelina, how did you like Justina?
Yagudin (after asking about the falling out of the blue): Oh, Mashechka... Yet you were skating to Natalia Bestemianova's favourite music! From the "Suicide Squad" movie. It is also Elena Vodorezova's favourite movie! Just see how they strive to take the microphone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyLjjm7HH1Q&t=6m6s