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I think skating helped me find myself.

— Peggy Fleming

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

— Anonymous

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

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

An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I'm higher than I expected.

— Veronik Mallet

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

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

— Scotty Bowman

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

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

— Alice Dreger