Skates Quotes
48 quotes by 45 authors
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards,…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy.…
— Evgeni Plushenko
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I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and…
— Wayne Gretzky
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The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.
— Mike Liut
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Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
— Kristi Yamaguchi
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When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf…
— Peter Lynch
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I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.
— Sonja Henie
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The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!
— Karen Magnussen
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Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life…
— Keith Donohue
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In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer.…
— Frank Mahovlich
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My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
— Bonnie Blair
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I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he…
— Mike Weir
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I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day,…
— Michelle Kwan
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I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't…
— Michelle Kwan
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually…
— Nancy Kerrigan
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And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
— Julie Benz
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
— Eric Idle
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He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
— Alan Ayckbourn
Who Wrote These Skates Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 48 Skates Quotes, led by these top contributors: