Skating Quotes - Page 4

• Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

  Tony Hawk

  Passion, Snowboarding, Spawn

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

  Debi Thomas

  Heart, Emotional, Medal

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• It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

  Debi Thomas

  Sports, Names, Feels

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• I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

  Adelina Sotnikova

  Competition, Gold, Events

  "17-Year-Old Gold Medalist Vows To Dominate The Figure Skating World" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 21, 2014.

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• The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges.

  Rudy Galindo

  Gay, Media, Judging

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• He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, Golf

  "Here's Your Sign". Comedy, 1996.

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• You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again.

  Anson Carter

  Jobs, Player, Average

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• The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Couple, Inspiration, Past

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• If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

  Dorothy Hamill

  Business, Crazy, Ice

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• The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.
  Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Wall, Fall

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• I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

  Patrick Chan

  Sports, Legacy, Want

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• I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

  Amy Poehler

  Stuff, Grew Up, Grew

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

  Matt Skiba

  Bmx, Motorcycle, Age

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Skating is what got me into punk rock.

  Matt Skiba

  Rocks, Punk, Punk Rock

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

  Kurt Browning

  Country, Mean, Legacy

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• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  Vera Wang

  Ideas, People, Levels

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• All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'

  Apolo Ohno

  Nice, Italian, Men

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• With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

  Apolo Ohno

  Weight, Legs, Speed

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• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  Rachel McAdams

  Sports, Art, Dad

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• I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Men, Ice, Backyards

  "On the ‘Parks & Rec’ Set with Tatiana Maslany". Interview, etcanada.com. October 15, 2013.

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• When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Ice, Play

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• But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

  Scott Hamilton

  Successful, Would Be, Happened

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• 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

  Sports, Ice, People

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sports, Growing Up, Athlete

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• Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

  Apolo Ohno

  Growing Up, Cities, Competition

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