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.

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

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

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.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.