Skating quotes
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Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.
-- Adelina Sotnikova -
I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.
-- Amy Poehler -
Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.
-- Amy Smart -
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
-- Anita Shreve -
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I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.
-- Anton Yelchin -
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 -
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 -
So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.
-- Brian Boitano -
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That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
-- Brian Boitano -
I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.
-- Clara Hughes -
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 -
I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
-- Debi Thomas -
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I begged my mom to let me start skating.
-- Debi Thomas -
I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.
-- Debi Thomas -
My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.
-- Debi Thomas -
It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.
-- Debi Thomas -
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I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.
-- Elvis Stojko -
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I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure
-- Elvis Stojko -
Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.
-- Elvis Stojko -
When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
-- Eric Heiden -
I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.
-- Eric Heiden -
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It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
-- Evgeni Plushenko -
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 -
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
-- George Sanders -
Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.
-- Gracie Gold -
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Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
-- Gracie Gold -
Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
-- Hart Crane -
Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.
-- Henry F. Ashurst -
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 -
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I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.
-- Johnny Weir -
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 -
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 -
To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.
-- Johnny Weir -
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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 -
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
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 -
The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!
-- Karen Magnussen -
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
-- Katarina Witt -
I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
-- Katarina Witt -
I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
-- Kenny Baker -
For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
-- Kim Yuna -
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My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.
-- Kim Yuna -
I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.
-- Kristi Yamaguchi -
One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
-- Kristi Yamaguchi -
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 -
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
-- Mackenzie Foy -
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
-- Maggie Grace -
I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.
-- Mary Docter -
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Skating is what got me into punk rock.
-- Matt Skiba -
Skating is in my heart, not my head
-- Michelle Kwan -
Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.
-- Michelle Kwan -
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
-- Michelle Kwan -
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He's skating like he's 36 again.
-- Mike Keane -
Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
-- Mrs. Patrick Campbell -
And I love what I do and I love skating.
-- Nancy Kerrigan -
Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.
-- Nancy Kerrigan -
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
-- Nancy Kerrigan -
I started skating when I was six years old.
-- Nancy Kerrigan -
Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
-- Oksana Baiul -
And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
-- Oksana Baiul -
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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 -
I think skating helped me find myself.
-- Peggy Fleming -
Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for
-- Peggy Fleming -
Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul
-- Peggy Fleming -
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.
-- Rex Stout -
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 -
Skating is now retro and hip.
-- Robin Cousins -
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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 -
For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.
-- Sasha Cohen -
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Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.
-- Sasha Cohen -
I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.
-- Sasha Cohen -
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
-- Scott Hamilton -
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
-- Scott Hamilton -
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I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
-- Scott Hamilton -
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 -
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
-- Scott Hamilton -
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
-- Scott Hamilton -
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High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.
-- Scotty Bowman -
When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'
-- Shaun White -
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 -
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
-- Tony Hawk -
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I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
-- Tony Hawk -
Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
-- Tony Hawk -
Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.
-- Tonya Harding -
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 -
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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 -
Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.
-- Wayne Gretzky -
Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.
-- Zoey Dean -
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 -
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I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.
-- Carolina Kostner -
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.
-- Jud Tylor -
Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.
-- Rodney Mullen -
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 -
