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
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. — Todd Bridges
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
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. — Scotty Bowman
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
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 skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
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
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
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
Short Skating Quotes
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. — Tony Hawk
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
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.' — Hayley Wickenheiser
If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark. — Leopold Fechtner
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
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
Skating Image Quotes
Ice 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway. — Ryan Sheckler
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
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
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
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. — Junior Seau
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else. — Wayne Gretzky
Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun. — Kurt Browning
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
The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore. — Jack Gilbert
Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground. — Rodney Mullen
Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things. — Rodney Mullen
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. — Vera Wang
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