Skating Quotes · Page 9

Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.

— Nathan Chen

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the…

— Barbara Ann Scott

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

— Charli XCX

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

— Ashley Wagner

The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.

— Nathan Chen

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

— Michelle Obama

Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio…

— Sasha Cohen

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

— Scott Hamilton

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the…

— Sarah Hughes

I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an…

— Condoleezza Rice

As an audience member, I like to watch what they're doing, and that's one of the reasons I love skating: because it's…

— Adam Rippon

“There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a…

— Randy Gardner

Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of…

— Max Aaron

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody…

— Dorothy Hamill

There were days I forgot my school clothes, and I would actually go to school with skating tights and a little skirt.…

— Michelle Kwan

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you…

— Ashley Wagner

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses -…

— Johnny Weir

Everyone saying, 'She'll bring back women's skating. This will be the one to watch at the Olympics.' And they say things that…

— Gracie Gold

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a…

— Jeff Ament

If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained…

— Pink Floyd

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best.…

— Adam Rippon

Michelle Kwan is an incredible artist, she wears her heart on her sleeve when she performs. She has grown so much from…

— Johnny Weir

Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After…

— Michio Kaku

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl…

— Marlee Matlin

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

— Scott Hamilton

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

— Jackie Evancho

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

— Tonya Harding

It's nice to go skating in a parking lot and hang out with people who aren't talking about their next movie role.

— Tom Green

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

— Dorothy Hamill

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

— Mary Docter

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

— Johnny Weir

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

— Mirai Nagasu

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

— Patrick Chan

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

— Joan Cusack

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

— Kim Yuna

Skating is much more of an individual sport, and then there is a team event once the team is picked.

— Eddy Alvarez

“thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!”

— Rich Burlew

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

— Julie Benz

In skating, I knew that 2014 was going to be it for me. I had my heart set on trying baseball again after.

— Eddy Alvarez

We used to go and skating every other weekend. Me and you haning out, best friends no doubt, girl we had so…

— Jacob Latimore