Skating Quotes

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

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.

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

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

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

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.

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

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

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.

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.

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.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

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

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

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.

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

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

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.