Figure skating, especially the longer performances, are…

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of…

— Nancy Kerrigan

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of…

— Mark Morris

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well.…

— Meta Golding

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

— Katarina Witt

I think skating helped me find myself.

— Peggy Fleming

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to…

— Debi Thomas

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing…everything else is just figure skating.

— Scotty Bowman

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

— Johnny Weir

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for…

— Johnny Weir

I decided to host my show 'Kiss and Cry' hoping that people actually want to participate and feel more familiar with figure skating. When…

— Yuna Kim

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not…

— Daniela Bobadilla

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With…

— Patrick Chan

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

— Max Aaron

I was really, really, really feminine and really into cheerleading and really into figure skating and really into gymnastics. Really into everything that other…

— Jonathan Van Ness

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating -…

— Alice Dreger