1.
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
Tony Hawk
2.
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.
Todd Bridges
3.
I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
Kenny Baker
4.
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.
Tony Hawk
5.
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.
Steve Caballero
6.
Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
Tony Hawk
8.
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
Scott Hamilton
9.
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.
Kurt Browning
12.
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.
Vera Wang
13.
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.
Rodney Mullen
14.
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
Scott Hamilton
15.
The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!
Karen Magnussen
16.
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
Scott Hamilton
17.
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.
Robin Cousins
19.
Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
Hart Crane
20.
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
22.
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23.
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.
Vera Wang
24.
Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.
Michelle Kwan
25.
It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
Evgeni Plushenko
26.
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.
Johnny Weir
27.
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
Johnny Weir
28.
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
29.
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.
Tony Hawk
30.
A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.
Rex Stout
31.
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
32.
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
Scott Hamilton
33.
Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.
Tonya Harding
34.
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.
Michelle Kwan
35.
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.
Brian Boitano
36.
For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
Kim Yuna
37.
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
Gracie Gold
38.
I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
Patrick Chan
39.
Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks.
T.I.
40.
I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
Scott Hamilton
41.
Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.
Gracie Gold
42.
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.
Ryan Sheckler
43.
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.
Robin Cousins
44.
That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
Brian Boitano
45.
I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
Nancy Kerrigan
46.
My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.
Kim Yuna
47.
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.
Kim Yuna
48.
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.
T.I.
49.
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
50.
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.
Peggy Fleming