Hockey Skating Quotes

#1. Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

Carl Hagelin

#2. I'm excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating.

Julia Mancuso

#3. He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

Bill Engvall

#4. For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Sophocles

#5. I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.

Woody Harrelson

#6. To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Mason Cooley

#7. He's skating like he's 36 again.

Mike Keane

#8. Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Bono

#9. I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

Patrick Chan

#10. The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

Wayne Gretzky

#12. Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

Joan Cusack

#13. It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

Charlie White

#14. I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

Patrick Chan

#15. I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.

Lindsay Fox

#16. I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

Rachel McAdams

#17. My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!

Margot Robbie

#18. I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

David Pajo

#19. The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.

Liev Schreiber

#20. High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing ... everything else is just figure skating.

Scotty Bowman

#21. When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

Christian Cota

#22. If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever!

Nelson Jack