Quotes About Speed Skating

#1. I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.

Bonnie Blair

#2. As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.

Shani Davis

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.

Apolo Ohno

#6. I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

Brittany Bowe

#7. Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

Alissa Nutting

#8. If you want to Be The Best...
You have to Beat The Best!
In order to Beat The Best...
You must Beat Yourself!
Become A Champion Today.

Julian Wood

#9. They belong to him anyway. I forget that. God created my children. He's giving me the honor of raising them,

Kristen Welch

#10. When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

Alison Bechdel

#11. He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.

Douglas Adams

#12. I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

Dorothy Hamill

#13. I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

Alan Furst

#14. You can divide the world into the two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.

Sergei Dovlatov

#15. I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.

Brian Boitano

#16. Every real human being has to be a 'rebel'...rebel against whom?? Against his own personality...the bits which have kept him from being the REAL him!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#17. Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Susan Sontag

#18. The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

Irvin D. Yalom

#19. You're supposed to take the man that has the best chance of survival.

James Patterson

#20. Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands ... 'Rights, as our founding fathers conceived them, are not claims to economic goods, but freedoms of action.

Ilana Mercer

#21. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Mason Cooley

#23. Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.

John Avlon

#24. It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Soren Kierkegaard