Skating Quotes

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

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.

For me, I'm a skateboarder.If I'm not skating then I'm going crazy. The big deals, if I'm not skating, it's not worth it.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

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.

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.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

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.

It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever.

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

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.

That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

You always learn from your mistakes.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

He's skating like he's 36 again.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.