Skating Quotes
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.
I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
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.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
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.
Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.
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.
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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.
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.
For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
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.
I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."
In ramp skating, theres this guy Alex Perelson whos really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we havent seen before. Just different types of spin.
Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.
At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.
