Skating Quotes · Page 6

In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It's your time; you do your best.

— Michelle Kwan

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

— Michelle Kwan

I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made…

— P. K. Subban

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

— George Sanders

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the…

— Brittany Bowe

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

— Adelina Sotnikova

I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.

— Patrick Chan

Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

— Apolo Ohno

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

— Brian Boitano

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations…

— Pete Domenici

I used to be a shopper before I had children. I'd go to Bergdorf and Barneys all the time. But now my…

— Aerin Lauder

When I was a kid, I used to wake up every single day and skateboard. All I would think about is skating,…

— Doja Cat

I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

We need to remind people how fun skating is, how quirky skating is. If we went on TV and overlooked the cold,…

— Tara Lipinski

I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating…

— Kristen Wiig

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a…

— Robin Cousins

When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your…

— Michio Kaku

I love skateboarding because it's the funnest thing on earth. And that goes for, not only if you're one of us about…

— Nyjah Huston

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four…

— Paul Theroux

Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game…

— Tony Hawk

I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I…

— Matt Skiba

I'm a dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating…

— Christian Hosoi

What kind of respect do I get? ... Just because I'm a physical player, it's O.K. to come at me and do…

— Scott Stevens

I don't know if skating or designing clothes is the be all or end all, there's always these new things that keep…

— Evan Mock

I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.

— Nathan Chen

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

— Tara Lipinski

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

— Tony Hawk

I started skating when I was 2 years old because of my older sister Natasha was a skater, and I wanted to…

— Kaetlyn Osmond

Figure skating is such an individual sport, but to have a teammate on the podium with you is unbelievable.

— Kaetlyn Osmond

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

— Kim Yuna

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have…

— Ashley Wagner

I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.

— Jud Tylor

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

— Oksana Baiul

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

— Julie Benz

I like figure skating, because it's articulate, and I'm that type of guy. But hey, we're all weird in our own way.

— Uriah Hall

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

— Gracie Gold

Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

— Shaun White

Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.

— Nathan Chen

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in…

— Brittany Bowe