Big sur Quote by Kristi Yamaguchi

The skating world is a very small world.

— Tara Lipinski

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of…

— Tony Hawk

I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.

— Lupe Fiasco

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

— Scott Hamilton

I just skated for the fun of it.

— Sarah Hughes

I always felt stupid at the skate park. Everyone else is just wiping out and getting hurt, but they didn't even have helmets and…

— Sadie Sink

I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana…

— Jeff Ament

I've been on skates since age 5.

— Eddy Alvarez

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

— Steve Yzerman

It was so hard to survive - moving so much, not having many friends. But I loved my skating.

— Tonya Harding

I skated like it's a sport, went for everthing and just gave it my best shot. It turned out freat. I had nothing to…

— Michelle Kwan

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

— Julia Lipnitskaya