Skating Quotes - Page 10

• Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Kind, Performers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.180, University of Missouri Press

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• The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it’s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can’t see right, and he’s haunted by nearly everything. He’s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He’s trying to make do with what he’s done, while he reminds us that we’re all, one way or another, in that position.

  Jim Shepard

  Cowboy, Thinking, Self

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• I started skating when I was six years old.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Years, Six Year Olds, Six

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• I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Two Sides, Different

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• Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  I Can

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• The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now.

  Alaine Chartrand

  Home, Years, Two

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• 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

  Ice, Steps, Feels

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Leadership, Sports, New York

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• All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range

  Elvis Stojko

  Guy, Get Better, Age

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• I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure

  Elvis Stojko

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• I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

  Katarina Witt

  Long, I Can

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• Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

  Katarina Witt

  Block, Goal, Focus

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• Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Squash, Done

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• Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.

  Steve Caballero

  Fun, One Day, Want

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Swimming, Fishing

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• I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

  Debi Thomas

  School, Accomplish, I Can

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• 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

  Skating On Thin Ice, World, Flu

  "Modern lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• 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

  Passion, Snowboarding, Levels

  "Interview: Tony Hawk 3". www.askmen.com.

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• There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

  Julie Benz

  Couple, Years, Acting

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• Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Kind, Speed

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

  Julie Benz

  Moving, Thinking, Acting

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• My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Jobs, Dad

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• During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before every major competition, to become familiar with the angles. Then I can envision what it will look and feel like when I am the only one on the ice going into a combination jump, skating backwards or getting ready for my triple Lutz. I know exactly where I will be, and so when it comes time to actually perform my routine, ever step and element will be like deja vu.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Competition

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