Skating Quotes · Page 8

School for me has always been a really great balance with the skating.

— Tessa Virtue

I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.

— Tessa Virtue

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

— Apolo Ohno

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

— Adelina Sotnikova

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

— Debi Thomas

Our father got us into skating and built us many ramps around our yard.

— Nyjah Huston

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

— Henry F. Ashurst

The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.

— Adam Rippon

Ever since I started skating, making the Olympic team was my ultimate dream. It's what has inspired and motivated me throughout my…

— Nathan Chen

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when…

— Eric Heiden

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts…

— Lisa Loeb

I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating…

— Dorothy Hamill

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own…

— Vera Wang

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that…

— Anton Yelchin

I began skating in the official practice venue of the 2002 Games. It was a huge Olympic atmosphere with Apollo Ohno sitting…

— Nathan Chen

I remember watching the 2002 Olympic Games and watching the men's event. I just started figure skating, and I remember thinking how…

— Max Aaron

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against…

— Vera Wang

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio,…

— Johnny Weir

There really hasn't been a name that is in the media on a daily basis, and that's what skating in the '90s…

— Tara Lipinski

The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club…

— Alaine Chartrand

I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're…

— Adam Rippon

My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them…

— Mirai Nagasu

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at…

— Janine di Giovanni

I learned to skate in our garage. We lived in the country in Florida, it was sort of farmish, and there was…

— Rodney Mullen

My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating…

— Patrick Chan

When we get off the line in skating we kind of look like little ducks running.

— Eddy Alvarez

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

— Daniel Johns

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

— Katarina Witt

That moment when you're rolling skating and you fall down and you stand up and people are staring at you.

— Sammi

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

— T.I

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch…

— Birdman

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

— Todd Bridges

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

— Katarina Witt

I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym…

— Jennette McCurdy

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.

— Johnny Weir

You look up to everybody. All these guys are my heroes, and then here I am skating right there next to them…

— Ryan Sheckler

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

— Maggie Grace

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to…

— Scott Hamilton

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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…

— Rob Dyrdek