"When you are world champion, [the judges] tend to cut you a little slack, but then there's the other 5 percent where the brain starts doubting," he said. "But I've been in bigger holes and recovered. This was certainly better than last year."
I think it would have been wiser not to say something like that aloud, although in my opinion it is true. Of course this is not as bad as Plushenko about his transitions, which also was true, LOL.