Doctors Quote by Debi Thomas

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 started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships…

— Sarah Hughes

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I…

— Adam Rippon

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was…

— Mark Hoppus

I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

— Nathan Chen

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

— Bob Dylan

I like to pick on figure skating, which is very athletic but it's not a sport.

— John Part

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

— Julia Lipnitskaya

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

— Amy Poehler

I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and…

— Johnny Weir

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter…

— Wayne Gretzky

A lot of people think that you have to specialize in one sport from an early age in order to turn pro. Most of…

— Pat LaFontaine