Quotes About Skater

#1. When it comes down to competition, it's not always about the best skater, it's about who skates the best in that competition.

Gracie Gold

#2. I still have so much passion to perform ... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

Johnny Weir

#3. Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot ... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

Brian Boitano

#4. I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then - bam! - he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad.

Christian Serratos

#5. I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

Justin Timberlake

#6. Fine," I say. "Dare accepted."

Game on, Skater Girl. Game on.

Katie McGarry

#7. 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

#8. I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi ... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.

Kim Yuna

#9. He'd danced around that story about why he'd moved to Terrebonne more smoothly than an Olympic skater on ice.

Susannah Sandlin

#10. Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

Bret Anthony Johnston

#11. Career-wise, I was not the most naturally talented ice skater. Of course I had a knack for it , but practice was always the answer for me. I needed to put in the time to get back the confidence that led me to Olympic gold.

Tara Lipinski

#12. There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.

Christian Hosoi

#13. I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Rebecca Miller

#14. I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

Shani Davis

#15. A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

Alexei Yagudin

#16. When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

Evangeline Lilly

#17. If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

D. B. Sweeney

#18. Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

Liza Minnelli

#19. I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

Evgeni Plushenko

#20. People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline ... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.

Jennifer E. Smith

#21. I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

Oksana Baiul

#22. Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Stacy Peralta

#23. She lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did.

Pat Barker

#24. I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#25. It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

Lolo Jones

#26. I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since I was two.

Jenna Boyd

#27. I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.

Jason Mraz

#28. Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate ... He's legit.

Tony Hawk

#29. I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

Michio Kaku

#30. When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

Brian Boitano

#31. Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

Robin Cousins

#32. I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Wayne Gretzky

#33. I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

Paul Coffey

#34. I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

Tyler, The Creator

#35. There is always the next big thing, the next big skater.

Gracie Gold

#36. Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

Katarina Witt

#37. I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

Scott Hamilton

#38. There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

Dick Button

#39. Kat is talking to someone else now, a slender brown-skinned boy who's joined the line just behind her. He's dressed like a skater, so I assume he has a PhD in artificial intelligence.

Robin Sloan

#40. I broke my toe playing Olympic figure skater with Allie over winter break.

Meg Cabot

#41. If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

Kim Yuna

#42. I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

Jeremy Abbott

#43. I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

Shani Davis

#44. 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

#45. I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

Michelle Kwan

#46. A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

Kim Yuna

#47. I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Tonya Harding

#48. I want to be a skater.

Lil' Wayne

#49. Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

Joni Mitchell

#50. I have been a figure skater for so long that when I stopped that competitive day-to-day grind, I didn't know what to do with myself. I don't know how the world works outside of being barked at by a Ukrainian woman and watching my weight.

Johnny Weir

#51. I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater ... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

Rick Owens

#52. 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

#53. I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

Mike Vallely

#54. I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

Ashley Wagner

#55. It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

Vera Wang

#56. I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

Stephen Colbert

#57. Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

Oksana Baiul

#58. Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

Dorothy Hamill

#59. I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

Apolo Ohno

#60. I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who were two major heroes of mine, and be asked to skate for that team and be a part of their company.

Mike Vallely

#61. Any chance you might sit on my face?'
'Carnal Knowledge'
'That's the stuff.'
'No, I mean 'Carnal Knowledge, the movie. Jack Nicholson says that to Ann Margret when they first meet. She's a skater.'
'Well, is there?'
'Are you always this direct?

Linda Banana

#62. First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

Liza Minnelli

#63. I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

Sarah Hughes

#64. [Thoreau] is a nimble skater who cuts elegant and complicated figures on a surface of frozen platitudes. Perhaps he would have been a better writer if he had not been quite so good a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#65. I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.

Johnny Weir

#66. 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

#67. Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

Johnny Weir

#68. One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

Lil' Wayne

#69. I'm just excited to be in the fashion business. With my son, we did Trukfit, and I think that's been super innovative for the people that bought it and his lifestyle and how he comes across with the skater look. We just excited.

Birdman

#70. I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

Sylvia Plath

#71. I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

Malin Akerman

#72. She breathed heavily, like a figure skater just off the ice.

Boris Fishman

#73. Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.

Tony Hawk

#74. Skateboarding has taught me two things - that symbolise a meaning of life.
How to keep a balance and how to pick yourself up when you've fallen.

Nikki Rowe

#75. Skaters are very much like peacocks.

Jon Heder