Skates Quotes - Page 2

• I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

  Carre Otis

  Running, Feet, Mountain

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• I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Ice, Quads

  "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 8, 2009.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Hurt

  "Q&A with Ryan Sheckler". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. August 01, 2009.

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• I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Fun

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• My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Skateboarding, Remember, Whole Life

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• Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

  Paul Feig

  Nice, Dirty, People

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• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Exercise, Practice

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• 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

  Smile, Years, Ice

  "Encore Presentation: Michelle Kwan Looks for Gold in 2002". "People In The News", www.cnn.com. January 1, 2002.

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• I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.

  Michelle Kwan

  Mean Girls, People, Doing Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Golf, Hockey

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

  Patrick Kane

  Dad, Get Better, Want

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• I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Ice

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• My goal, my dream has already come true. Every kid's dream is to become a pro skater, you know? Not only have I become a pro skater, but to me personally, I ride for the best sponsors there are. That's even more than I ever expected... I didn't skate to please everyone else. I started skating because I love to skate. you gotta watch out because there will come a point where you'll forget that.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Dream, Kids, Goal

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• I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Pads, Action

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• Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Player, Puck

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• Yeah, I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn to skate really good, and if I can't, I'm going to get hurt doing it.

  Tre Cool

  Hurt, Yeah, I Can

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• In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

  Frank Mahovlich

  Team, Talking, Giving

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• We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Stars, Believe, Hockey

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• I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!

  Jade Puget

  Body, Lasts, Bones

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• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Parent, Lessons

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• When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my résumé with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Kids, Ice, Tunes

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads

  Jaden Smith

  Hate, People, Pads

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• All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

  Kurt Browning

  Believe, Heart, Ovation

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• I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Artist, Thinking

  "The Billboard Q&A: Sheryl Crow". Interview with Ken Tucker, www.billboard.com. January 23, 2008.

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