Skating Quotes

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

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.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

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.

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.

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 watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

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.

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

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.

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.