Dad Quote by Dejan Lovren

When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom made teaching…

— Ashley Wagner

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

— Nancy Kerrigan

The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen…

— Bobby Hull

Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

— Patrick Kane

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

— Debi Thomas

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

My parents always tell me that they never would have let me start if they had known how expensive and difficult figure skating is.

— Mirai Nagasu

Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my…

— Dorothy Hamill

My dad owns a hockey rink and he was sharpening my first pair of skates while I was still in the womb.

— Johnny Gaudreau

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime…

— Jennifer Ellison

My dad was always supportive of me and my skating, and he loved me as best that he could, and he worked hard.

— Tonya Harding