Backwards Quote by Dorothy Hamill

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

— Patrick Kane

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 was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

— Paul Coffey

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate.…

— Nancy Kerrigan

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

— Sonja Henie

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

— Jason Momoa

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

— Debi Thomas

In high school, I was into a lot of different stuff, and I did ride skateboards.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning…

— Rob Dyrdek

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to…

— Christian Hosoi