Skating Quotes

I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.

I really like figure skating.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

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.

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

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.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

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.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

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.

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

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.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.

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.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

I started skating when I was six years old.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

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.