Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. — Todd Bridges
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. — Marvin Olasky
Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a cha-cha.
I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. — Kenny Baker
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. — Scott Hamilton
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. — Michelle Trachtenberg
Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. — Dorothy Hamill
Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. — Pete Domenici
Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes. — Michelle Kwan
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate. — Dorothy Parker
Skating Quotes
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. — Tony Hawk
I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver. — Michelle Kwan
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. — Tony Hawk
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. — Dorothy Hamill
People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.' — Hayley Wickenheiser
Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. — Tony Hawk
Roller Skating Quotes
If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark. — Leopold Fechtner
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley! — Dr. Seuss
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet. — Anne Sexton
Say Yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting. — George Sanders
I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise. — Diana Ross
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. — Alan Ayckbourn
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards. — Yolanda Adams
Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun. — Frank Zappa
Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates. — John Dean
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates. — David Nicholls
More Figure Skating Quotes
I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver. — Michelle Kwan
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. — Scott Hamilton
Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes. — Michelle Kwan
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. — Scott Hamilton
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. — Vera Wang
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. — Georges Rouault
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. — Katarina Witt
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. — Andy Rooney
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. — Scott Hamilton
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. — Scott Hamilton
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. — Scott Hamilton
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart. — Scott Hamilton
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned. — Debi Thomas
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had. — Robin Cousins
I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating. — Julie Benz
I think skating helped me find myself. — Peggy Fleming
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating. — Michelle Kwan
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw
At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong. — Evgeni Plushenko
Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect. — Johnny Weir
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something. — Dennis Rodman
Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. — Joan Cusack
It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile. — Elvis Stojko
It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing. — Evgeni Plushenko
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. — Johnny Weir
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. — Debi Thomas
He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out. — Hans Christian Andersen
When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course. — Lee Trevino
Memories just get richer with time. — Scott Hamilton
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. — Charles Colson
What kind of respect do I get? ... Just because I'm a physical player, it's O.K. to come at me and do what you want? Hey, it's a hockey game. It's not figure skating. You know what? I can take a hit and I can give a hit. I don't care who it is. No one gets a free ride out there. I don't get a free ride, and no one gets a free ride from me. — Scott Stevens
My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters! — Norm MacDonald
I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport. — Patrick Chan
I believe in myself and in Saint Therese. — Tara Lipinski
I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me. — Gabrielle Daleman
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all! — Ben Stiller
You have to be able to focus, to control your energy. You need to make it your ally, instead of trying to harness it, to muscle it. That wastes energy too. There has to be a harmony between you and your body. Your mind and your body, and your soul have to connect in order to move forward. And this comes through relaxation. — Elvis Stojko
What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness. — Debi Thomas
If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing. — Evgeni Plushenko
To me, figure skating is a diving sport. It's a sport made by the gods. It inspires people to cry, it inspires people to cheer, it pulls the emotions out of people. — Frank Carroll
Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports. — Debi Thomas
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy... and I'm willing. — Jewel
The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now. — Alaine Chartrand
One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed. — Max Weber
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