Skating Quotes

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

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 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.

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.

Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Skating is now retro and hip.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

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.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!

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.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

I think skating helped me find myself.

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

Skating is in my heart, not my head

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.

The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

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.

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.

A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

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.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

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.

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

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.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

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