Skating Quotes - Page 8

• I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  School, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Michelle Kwan is an incredible artist, she wears her heart on her sleeve when she performs. She has grown so much from every influence in her career, and she has made herself the biggest star there ever will be in figure skating. She's down to Earth, friendly and always positive. Nobody will ever match her longevity or her ability to be such a strong competitor.

  Johnny Weir

  Strong, Stars, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Needs, Proof, Tricks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

  Aleks Paunovic

  Winning, Feet, What Matters

  "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

  John Robinson

  Anger, Frustration, Broken

  6 Copy quote

• Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.

  Carolina Kostner

  Fun, Winning, Results

  6 Copy quote

• When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mother, Memories, Commitment

  4 Copy quote

• Back in the day however, careers were strictly built on competitions, just like surfing, though surfing is changing too so you can free surf and still get paid. So I think that rivalry was really because of the fans and the media who built it up, but it did bring something exciting about the sport, just like in any sport, whether it's Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, I think it just made skating that much more exciting.

  Christian Hosoi

  Sports, Thinking, Media

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.

  T.I.

  Effort, Acting, Nervous

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

  Michelle Obama

  Creative, Parks, Bowling

  Source: www.popsugar.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

  Swizz Beatz

  Car, Hip Hop, Hearing

  Source: www.thefader.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Thinking, Numbers

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Sports, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.automobilenews.net

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating is something that you can do that gets that athletic urge satisfied, but you get to do it on your own terms. You can be as ballsy as you want to be. It was perfect for me.

  James Mercer

  Football, Team, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive that gives you a lot of room for unique and individual expression. Whatever you're interested in can become something you kind of own in your group of skater friends.

  James Mercer

  Unique, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Puck in the centre of your chest, always have motion in your skating when the rush is coming at you, being square to the puck, understanding who's on the ice and where they are on the ice at all times, competing and having fun.

  Jake Allen

  Fun, Ice, Squares

  Source: www.cbc.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't get into skating to be famous.

  Eric Heiden

  "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

  Daniel Johns

  Sarcasm, Ice, People

  5 Copy quote

• Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.

  John Robinson

  Relationship, Different, Three

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

  Kurt Browning

  Sometimes

  6 Copy quote

• I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.

  Jud Tylor

  Fall, Thinking, Figures

  4 Copy quote

• I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.

  Carolina Kostner

  Jobs, Care, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Sleep, Home, Long

  "Ryan Sheckler Talks Manscaping". Interview with Lucas Wisenthal, www.askmen.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

  Josee Chouinard

  Self, Expression, Play

  4 Copy quote