Skating Quotes

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

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 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.

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.

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.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

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.

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

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

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

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

I think skating helped me find myself.