Skating Quotes

Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he's just such a nice guy. Tony's an awesome guy too, but back then, he was a real aggressive kid and they were in such a different place. Stacy was so sensitive and at the same time so competitive when it came to his skating.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

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

Skating is now retro and hip.

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.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

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.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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

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.

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!

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.

I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

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

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

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

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