Skating Quotes · Page 8

That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

— Michelle Obama

The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.

— Nathan Chen

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

— Charli XCX

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

— Ashley Wagner

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, I'm a skateboarder.If I'm not skating then I'm going crazy. The big deals, if I'm not skating, it's not worth…

— Rob Dyrdek

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the…

— Barbara Ann Scott

Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.

— Nathan Chen

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken…

— John Robinson

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why…

— Kaetlyn Osmond

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done…

— Vera Wang

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice…

— Dorothy Hamill

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy…

— Dorothy Hamill

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a…

— Tony Hawk

To me, figure skating is a diving sport. It's a sport made by the gods. It inspires people to cry, it inspires…

— Frank Carroll

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching…

— Brian Boitano

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

2017 was probably one of the hardest years of my life. There were a lot of personal struggles. I lost some very…

— Scott Moir

I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's skateboard and…

— Tony Hawk

I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games.…

— Adam Rippon

Growing up, you always dream of winning a gold medal. But coming into these Games, it wasn't something I was focused on.…

— Cindy Klassen

I skate a lot with my shirt off, so working out has always been important to me. I almost have as much…

— Ryan Sheckler

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the…

— Anson Carter

Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat…

— Ryan Sheckler

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

— Scott Hamilton

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

— Jackie Evancho

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

— Scott Hamilton

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will…

— Debi Thomas

I used really into inline skating when it was the craze in the nineties and I got a really bad scar to…

— Pedro Capo

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Hell would freeze over before I saw my parents happily holding hands and ice skating.

— Tana Mongeau

It was so hard to survive - moving so much, not having many friends. But I loved my skating.

— Tonya Harding

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

— Julia Lipnitskaya

Skating is really hard, especially women's skating where we're judged in little tiny dresses.

— Kaetlyn Osmond

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could…

— Tonya Harding

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

— Debi Thomas

Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

— Kurt Browning

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

— Bonnie Blair

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

— Mackenzie Foy