Figure Skating Quotes
110 Figure Skating quotes by 79 unique authors
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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you…
— Scott Hamilton
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
— Seamus Heaney
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I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a…
— David Icke
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The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the…
— Ray Manzarek
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President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which…
— Dennis Miller
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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
— Claude Pepper
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would…
— Samuel Richardson
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Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
— Dennis Rodman
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Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which…
— Andy Rooney
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Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly…
— George C. Wallace
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Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether…
— Vera Wang
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You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
— Andrew Weil
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Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.
— Johnny Weir
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Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
— Johnny Weir
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I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun…
— Johnny Weir
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To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
— Johnny Weir
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Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time,…
— Johnny Weir
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Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me,…
— Johnny Weir
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I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very…
— Johnny Weir
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I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I…
— Johnny Weir
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In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and…
— Johnny Weir
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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information…
— Bob Woodward
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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
— Jamie Zawinski
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Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”…
— Paul Theroux
Who Wrote These Figure Skating Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 110 Figure Skating Quotes, led by these top contributors: