Excelled Quote by Meta Golding

Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.

— Nathan Chen

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

— Johnny Weir

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

— Adelina Sotnikova

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

— Adelina Sotnikova

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.

— Yuna Kim

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

— Scott Hamilton

When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice.…

— Yuna Kim

At the Olympics, once I got there it was more about the full experience and skating to the best of my ability.

— Eddy Alvarez

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us…

— Meryl Davis

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to…

— Debi Thomas

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

— Amy Poehler

Figure skating, especially the longer performances, are such a feat. It requires so much stamina and is so beautiful.

— Gus Kenworthy