Skates Quotes - Page 3

• This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.

  Ryan Sheckler

  New York, Cities, People

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• If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.

  Philip Larkin

  Thinking, Feet, Ice

  Letter to J.B.Sutton, October 30, 1949.

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• A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

  David Seabury

  Perseverance, Boys, Littles

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• If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.

  Leopold Fechtner

  Children, Dark, House

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• Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

  Bobby Orr

  Kids, Sneakers, Role Models

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• I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

  Sarah Hughes

  Dream, Thinking, Skating

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• 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

  Blow, Ice, Knowing

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• 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

  Cities, Individuality, Parks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

  Clara Hughes

  Winning, Average, Training

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• Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

  Frank Zappa

  Fun, Stupid, Gun

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• I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

  Mackenzie Foy

  Eight, Roller Skating, Has Beens

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

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• I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Different, Kind

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

  Bonnie Blair

  Short Love, Games, Long

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• I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

  Katarina Witt

  Ice, Needs, Attention

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• You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

  Joe Sakic

  Hockey, Play, Spots

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• As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.

  Gerad Adams

  Growing Up, Lakes, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

  Gerad Adams

  Fall, Ice, Needs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Needs, Competing, Contests

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• I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Fun, Shapes

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• There's a lot of emotions that always come out after a skate of a lifetime. I always start crying because there is so much buildup to that competition.

  Michelle Kwan

  Competition, Emotion, Cry

  "Cool on the ice". www.cnn.com.

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• I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Running, Yoga, Everyday

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• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  Anne Carson

  Cutting, Orange, Quota

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• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Men, Progress

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles.

  Sidney Crosby

  Couple, Being Positive, Next Steps

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• 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

  Flirting, Light, Sun

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.85, Hachette UK

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