Skating Quotes · Page 5

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 began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.

— Nathan Chen

My dad was always supportive of me and my skating, and he loved me as best that he could, and he worked…

— Tonya Harding

That's the thing about ice skating, you can just fall awkwardly like that.

— Chesney Hawkes

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range

— Elvis Stojko

I grew up figure skating, and in figure skating there is only a handful of black people at the time figure skating…

— Brandi Rhodes

There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball.

— Eddy Alvarez

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

— Brian Boitano

My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a…

— Mirai Nagasu

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on…

— Jeffrey Deitch

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always…

— Gareth Gates

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes…

— Jostein Gaarder

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

— Bonnie Blair

I want people to see a real person on the ice. I want to seem tangible, hard-working, passionate about my skating, not…

— Ashley Wagner

This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride…

— Ryan Sheckler

I'm the baby for sure. My siblings are looking out for me, making sure I'm not doing something stupid. They are making…

— Nathan Chen

Skating, I think I was told once, is the second most expensive sport. My family's had to refinance three times - they…

— Jeremy Abbott

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and…

— Apolo Ohno

All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because…

— Apolo Ohno

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn't matter…

— Nyjah Huston

In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…

— Salman Rushdie

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

I think skateboarding is better now in terms of the amount of facilities and the amount of support young skaters have -…

— Tony Hawk

When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to…

— Apolo Ohno

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

— Scott Hamilton

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

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

— Shaun White

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

— Adelina Sotnikova

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

— Rodney Dangerfield

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge…

— Charlie White

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.

— Nathan Chen

A lot of the figure skating costumes are kind of revealing, so I think it's nice to have glowing, soft, smooth skin.

— Tessa Virtue

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

In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most powerful lower half of the body and don't want to have any…

— Eddy Alvarez

Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to…

— Eddy Alvarez

I love the classic side of skating, making it look like a full program and not just technical based.

— Kaetlyn Osmond

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

— Matt Taibbi

You know you had a good day of skating when the side of your thumb is just straight raw from holding your…

— Nyjah Huston

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

— Johnny Weir

When I was in the care system, I lived for skating and drawing. I lived on roller skates.

— Goldie