Quotes and Sayings About Skating
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
-- Gracie Gold
