Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. — Todd Bridges
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
I think any man over 250 pounds rollerblading is instant hilarity. There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading. — Chris Pratt
And I love what I do and I love skating. — Nancy Kerrigan
Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. — Tony Hawk
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
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
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it. — Mark Gonzales
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. — Tony Hawk
I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality. — Tony Hawk
Skating Quotes
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 started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. — Kenny Baker
I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver. — Michelle Kwan
Life is like a roller coaster. It has it's ups and downs. But it's your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.
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
Life is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs. But it's your choice to scream or to enjoy the ride.
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
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
Ice Skating Quotes
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
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
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
Life is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs. But it's your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. — Katarina Witt
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. — Franklin P. Jones
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw
Life is a roller coaster
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
Figure Skating Quotes
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
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
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
Skateboard Quotes
Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder. — Lance Mountain
It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy — Chris Cole
I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board. — Shaun White
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun. — Tom DeLonge
I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things. — Jason Lee
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk
The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there. — Shaun White
My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man. — Christian Serratos
Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is. — Lance Mountain
If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera. — Larry Clark
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
Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam. — Prince
That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating. — Michelle Obama
I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs. — Maeve Binchy
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps. — Leonard Bishop
I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight. — Mackenzie Foy
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town. — Ian Shoales
Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly. — Audrey Niffenegger
I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars. — Pam Grier
I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?" — Jim Gaffigan
Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you. — Henry F. Ashurst
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates. — Sayings
Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs. — Fran Lebowitz
She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her. — J. D. Salinger
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell. — Naomi Shihab Nye
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