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
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
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. — Todd Bridges
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
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
Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. — Tony Hawk
And I love what I do and I love skating. — Nancy Kerrigan
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
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. — Kenny Baker
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. — Diane Arbus
People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.' — Hayley Wickenheiser
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. — Steven Wright
I'm icy, I'm icy. So icy, so icy. — Gucci Mane
Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice. — P. K. Subban
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. — David Lee Roth
I'm not going to die slipping on no ice. — Fred Hampton
Ice Skating Image Quotes
Skating On Thin Ice Quotes
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
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. — Zygmunt Bauman
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. — Franklin P. Jones
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance. — Anita Shreve
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep. — Jostein Gaarder
Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Skating Quotes
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. — Tony Hawk
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Figure Skating Quotes
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. — Georges Rouault
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
Ice Hockey Quotes
It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them. — Timothy Olyphant
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. — Ella Maillart
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. — Kate Smith
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. — Robert T. Bakker
I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time. — Phil Esposito
There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang. — Ken Dryden
I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice. — Steve Martin
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch
Rink Quotes
If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating. — Brian Boitano
What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music. — Michelle Kwan
I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard. — P. K. Subban
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep. — Nancy Kerrigan
There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament. — Preston Manning
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there. — Gordie Howe
It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important. — Sidney Crosby
One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus. — Glenn Healy
I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week. — Sasha Cohen
It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs. — Swizz Beatz
Ice Water Quotes
I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool. — Dean Ambrose
What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents.
Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. — Jay Griffiths
I would always drink iced teas and lemonades and sodas while filming. Now it's only water and coffee. — Joe Gatto
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. — George R. R. Martin
When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style. — Bruce Lee
When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence. — Muso Soseki
Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction. — Mooji
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
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. — Katarina Witt
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw
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
I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling. — Johnny Weir
A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating. — Rex Stout
Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud. — Apolo Ohno
Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking. — P. K. Subban
I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer." — Rodney Dangerfield
I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it. — Laurie Halse Anderson
If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange. — Dorothy Hamill
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour. — Randall Jarrell
Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter. — Keith Donohue
I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do. — Clara Hughes
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. — Gracie Gold
If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy! — Dorothy Hamill
I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice. — Clara Hughes
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 don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice. — Michelle Kwan
I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. — Kenny Baker
I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice. — Sasha Cohen
And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life. — Julie Benz
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price? — Dean Koontz
You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating. — Joe Sakic
It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever. — Sidney Crosby
We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating. — Kevin Keegan
If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit! — Little Richard
You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness. — Apolo Ohno
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