Hmm. This has made me think. My two archetypal consistent skaters were Plushenko and Kwan (and probably also while I think about it Stojko and the pairs skater Artur Dmitriev). I think results have to come into it because to be fair when I think about consistent skaters I don't think about those who lurk their whole career around the 15th-8th place, skate well, but never shine. There are several of those, but they don't really stay in the mind. I think it is people who do dare to do the harder things, but you have a confidence that it will work for them. Even when Chan was winning everything (much as I love him) I couldn't think of him as consistent skater so success is only part of the picture. Staying upright is also only part of it, however. It is the confidence that someone will execute their programs at a high level week in week out.