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I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's skateboard and stood on…

— Tony Hawk

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 was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

— Pam Grier

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

— Tonya Harding

While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated!…

— Gracie Gold

I always wanted to fly. When I was in theatre, I used to go up on Dunstable Downs on my day off to watch…

— David Jason

When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag…

— Sheryl Lee

I just skated for the fun of it.

— Sarah Hughes

It had been a dream of mine to go to an Olympic Games since I was about seven years old. I didn't know I'd…

— Eddie the Eagle

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

— Dorothy Hamill

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

— Lupe Fiasco

I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau