Skating Quotes · Page 15

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

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

— Dick Button

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

— Jackie Evancho

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to…

— Sarah Hughes

Skating has given me so many opportunities.

— Patrick Chan

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

— D. B. Sweeney

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

— Nancy Kerrigan

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

— Evgeni Plushenko

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

— Julie Benz

I think back to my time when I was skating: I was 15, and there was no such thing as Instagram.

— Tara Lipinski

She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's…

— Frank Carroll

I sometimes think about adult skating and how, you know, people like Midori Ito, she competed at the adult world championships. I…

— Mirai Nagasu

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating…

— Christian Hosoi

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

— Katarina Witt

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars,…

— Swizz Beatz

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot…

— Carolina Kostner

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming…

— Yuna Kim

“There’s always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin…

— Carol Goodman

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick.…

— Katarina Witt

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

I want to be shooter, be competitive, go to the net, so it has changed, but it hasn't changed that much. It's…

— Jarome Iginla

I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I…

— Brian Boitano

It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who…

— Ashley Wagner

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at…

— Janine di Giovanni