Skating Quotes · Page 7

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

— Wayne Gretzky

I saw the older kids entering the rink carrying hockey sticks and bags, and I was fascinated by the equipment. Once I…

— Hilary Knight

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle…

— Matt Skiba

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

— Scott Hamilton

I really started getting my body ready when I was a freshman in high school. I had just been skating so much,…

— Ryan Sheckler

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against…

— Vera Wang

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

— Rachel McAdams

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

— N.D. Wilson

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

— Scott Hamilton

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

— Gracie Gold

Right now it looks like skating is done for me. I'm ready to move on. But if baseball doesn't work out and…

— Eddy Alvarez

My mom is really dedicated to me. She drives me to school and skating, wakes up for me, and I'm just really…

— Mirai Nagasu

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this…

— Dorothy Hamill

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

— Mary Docter

School for me has always been a really great balance with the skating.

— Tessa Virtue

I literally started skating handrails when I was seven years old, with no helmet on, so I was just bred into this…

— Nyjah Huston

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

— Bonnie Blair

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic…

— Dorothy Hamill

If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If…

— Samuel Butler

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

— Shani Davis

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't…

— Jennifer Aniston

I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact…

— Jim Gaffigan

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

— Hart Crane

Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all…

— Johnny Weir

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

— Katarina Witt