Top 100 Quotes About Skating
#1. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
Kim Yuna
#2. It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.
Gracie Gold
#3. Skating is what got me into punk rock.
Matt Skiba
#4. I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.
Elvis Stojko
#5. When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
#6. thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!
Rich Burlew
#7. Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#8. 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
#9. It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
Preston Sturges
#10. I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.
Gene Pitney
#11. With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
John Robinson
#12. My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
Dorothy Hamill
#13. Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
Katarina Witt
#14. When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.
Brittany Bowe
#15. I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.
T.I.
#16. When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.
Michio Kaku
#17. Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.
Henry F. Ashurst
#18. I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
Tony Hawk
#19. Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.
Robin Cousins
#20. Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.
Carolina Kostner
#21. 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
#22. It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.
Patrick Kane
#23. Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#24. 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
#25. I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
Dorothy Hamill
#26. When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'
Shaun White
#27. During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public.
Kim Yuna
#28. It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who doesn't know everything about skating.
Ashley Wagner
#29. 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
#30. I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.
Scott Hamilton
#31. That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
Dick Button
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.
Apolo Ohno
#35. That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.
Julie Benz
#37. Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.
Steve Caballero
#38. Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
D. B. Sweeney
#39. Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#40. I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
Dorothy Hamill
#41. I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller skating, singing, and talking to girls."
"You left out stalking," I told him as he helped me out of the bed. "I can always tell when you're lurking around corners."
"You only asked for three.
Rick Yancey
#42. If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.
Brian Boitano
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Barbara Ann Scott
#46. I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
Dorothy Hamill
#47. Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.
Peggy Fleming
#49. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
#50. I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
Tatiana Maslany
#51. I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
T. V. Carpio
#52. Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
Hart Crane
#53. 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
#54. People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
Daniel Johns
#55. What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.
Michelle Kwan
#56. I'd say Hades will convert the Underworld into an ice skating rink before the king has a personality makeover.
Melissa Petreshock
#57. Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.
Shaun White
#58. 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
#59. You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
Joe Sakic
#60. Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.
Ryan Sheckler
#61. Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.
N.D. Wilson
#62. 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
#63. My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.
Anton Yelchin
#64. I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
#65. I am a skateboarder, and to stay fit for skating I have to stay away from a lot of things. I go to parties and that's fun for me, but between skating and lifting and everything, I know what I have to do the next day, so I'm very conscious about my schedule and keeping it.
Ryan Sheckler
#67. 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
#68. I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.
Kurt Browning
#69. Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.
Kurt Browning
#70. There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.
Tony Hawk
#71. Just as ballroom dancing and pair skating command partners to work together seamlessly, in the sport of dressage, the rider performers an intricate pas de deux with his partner - a twelve-hundred-pound four-footed beast.
Elizabeth Letts
#72. I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#73. The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.
Johnny Weir
#74. You said that life's just like skating; I just need to kick forward and take a chance, push off the ground and follow through. And when everything works out, I'll coast.
Jay McLean
#75. Elena scowled - the day she let Dmitri give her orders was the day ice-skating became a regular activity in hell.
Nalini Singh
#76. America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
Matt Taibbi
#77. I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.
Dorothy Hamill
#78. Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.
Sasha Cohen
#79. In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
Patrick Chan
#80. When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
Brittany Bowe
#81. I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!
Nancy Kerrigan
#82. I used to be a shopper before I had children. I'd go to Bergdorf and Barneys all the time. But now my weekends are spent differently. I go to the skating rink or the park, not the stores.
Aerin Lauder
#83. When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
Eric Heiden
#84. Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace
#86. Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.
Amy Smart
#87. It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever.
Sidney Crosby
#88. It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
Evgeni Plushenko
#89. He was into the skating culture now and I was into, well, I'm not sure what I was into. I was into roaming around on my own, and I enjoyed it.
Markus Zusak
#90. 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
#91. I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.
Ryan Sheckler
#92. Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.
John Robinson
#93. Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.
Gracie Gold
#94. A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.
Rex Stout
#95. Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
Tara Lipinski
#96. I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.
Mary Docter
#97. If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!
Dorothy Hamill
#98. While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
Gracie Gold
#99. 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
#100. I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."
Christian Hosoi
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