Top 77 Quotes About Figure Skating
#1. Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.
Johnny Weir
#2. When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
#3. thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!
Rich Burlew
#4. I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.
Daniela Bobadilla
#5. Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.
Debi Thomas
#6. Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things ... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.
Johnny Weir
#7. Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
Dorothy Hamill
#8. Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
Scott Hamilton
#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. I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.
Oksana Baiul
#11. I've never been invited to do 'Stars on Ice' before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it's disappointing that I can't perform for my American fans ... all because I'm not 'family friendly' enough.
Johnny Weir
#12. Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.
N.D. Wilson
#13. When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.
Meta Golding
#14. I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.
Johnny Weir
#15. To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
Johnny Weir
#16. Somewhere hell was freezing over and Satan was figure skating.
Lia Riley
#17. What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
Scott Hamilton
#18. And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
Scott Hamilton
#19. I never ever wanted to change my sport ... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.
Johnny Weir
#20. In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.
Ashley Wagner
#21. Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
Scott Hamilton
#22. She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.
Frank Carroll
#24. 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
#25. It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
Evgeni Plushenko
#26. Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.
Johnny Weir
#27. Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
Scott Hamilton
#28. Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.
Chris Jericho
#29. I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
#30. Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.
Mark Morris
#32. Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
Adelina Sotnikova
#33. 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
#34. I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.
Jennette McCurdy
#35. I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.
Kim Yuna
#36. Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.
Adelina Sotnikova
#37. I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
Julie Benz
#38. I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
Patrick Chan
#39. Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.
Jess Walter
#40. 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
#41. And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
Scott Hamilton
#42. The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.
Kim Yuna
#43. When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
Christian Cota
#44. To me, figure skating is a diving sport. It's a sport made by the gods. It inspires people to cry, it inspires people to cheer, it pulls the emotions out of people.
Frank Carroll
#45. Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
Johnny Weir
#46. High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing ... everything else is just figure skating.
Scotty Bowman
#47. I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.
Johnny Weir
#48. I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.
Jud Tylor
#49. If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.
Dorothy Hamill
#50. At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.
Evgeni Plushenko
#51. Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
Debi Thomas
#52. Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off.
Meryl Davis
#53. Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
Robin Cousins
#54. Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney
#55. In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.
Johnny Weir
#56. Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.
Paul Theroux
#57. Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.
Vera Wang
#58. If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.
Evgeni Plushenko
#59. I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.
Tamara Tunie
#60. My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
Debi Thomas
#61. The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.
Julia Lipnitskaya
#62. When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.
Kim Yuna
#63. I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.
Aleks Paunovic
#66. Pain-soaked joints. Endless miles. Concessions and compromises. Soon, finally, everything would come down to a few irretrievable revolutions of a stopwatch.
Lisa Luciano
#67. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.
Elvis Stojko
#70. 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
#71. He was her creation. From the moment they met when he wobbled onto the ice at the age of ten and refused to leave until he had learned his first jump, they could see into each others souls. Now when it counted most, there was a wall between them.
Lisa Luciano
#72. Yeah, because off the ice the only language Stephanie speaks is fluent Bitch.
Jennifer Comeaux
#73. No matter what the other fifty odd weeks of his life offered, here, at least for a few days, he was officially a very special person in an otherwise ordinary world.
Lisa Luciano
#74. I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.
Ashley Wagner
#75. I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.
Condoleezza Rice
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