Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better. — Patrick Kane Copy Share Image
I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours. — Carolina Kostner Copy Share Image
My dad owns a hockey rink and he was sharpening my first pair of skates while I was still in the womb. — Johnny Gaudreau Copy Share Image
Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered. — David Seabury Copy Share Image
I couldn't skate, I couldn't shoot, and I wasn't very intelligent. But I was spectacular — Ken Reardon Copy Share Image
Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober. — Mats Sundin Copy Share Image
Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing… — David Walton Copy Share Image
I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates. — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Maybe I didn't get new skates, but I got used skates. I made it to the national championships in used skates that… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family… — Rudy Galindo Copy Share Image
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and… — Kurt Browning Copy Share Image
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My… — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
