I just skated for the fun of it.

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which…

— Ted Lindsay

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

— Saara Aalto

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

— Kenny Baker

I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. I wanted so many…

— Sasha Cohen

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling…

— Bonnie Blair

I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.

— Irina Slutskaya

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

— Ellen Page

My first love was hockey, but it seemed the more I skated and danced with Tessa, the more I fell in love with the…

— Scott Moir

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I…

— Rachel McAdams

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.

— Max Aaron

I've skated after Yuzu a handful of times. The only thing I can take away from it is to be prepared for the Pooh-bears…

— Nathan Chen

My proficiency with ballet was on a steep decline the more I skated.

— Tessa Virtue

If you take guys who have been off who have had very limited opportunity to work out and train and haven't skated in months,…

— Brad Marchand

I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing. I didn't…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I just played football from an early age and didn't get involved in any other sports. We had tennis, cycling, ice skating - I'd…

— Jaap Stam