Figure Skating Quotes - Page 5

• I really like figure skating.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Skating, Figures

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• I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  School, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.

  Jud Tylor

  Fall, Thinking, Skating

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• Memories just get richer with time.

  Scott Hamilton

  Memories, Get Rich

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• Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

  Elias Canetti

  Children, Parenting, Practice

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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  Fidel Castro

  Jesus, Ideas, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Believe, Cutting

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• In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Culture, Tycoons

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• At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

  Seamus Heaney

  Attitude, Home, Habit

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• I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Dad, Children, Nightmare

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, People

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• The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lonely, Jobs, Loneliness

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• The rumor is that when I was younger, I didn't like to sweat and I didn't like to run, and both of those things are kind of important in tennis. I was introduced to a lot of sports as a child: I did gymnastics, figure skating, tennis and golf, and I dabbled a little bit in ballet. I just never fell in love with tennis the way I did with golf.

  Jessica Korda

  Sports, Running, Children

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

  Johnny Weir

  Sports, Art, Issues

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• Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

  Paul Theroux

  Mother, Morning, Home

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". The Atlantic Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Bad Ass, Dancing, Champion

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• I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

  Bob Woodward

  Trying, Tape, Information

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• An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sports, Life Lesson, Hard Work

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• If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Giving, Firsts, Toys

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• She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

  Frank Carroll

  Sports, Long, Skating

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• Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.

  Debi Thomas

  Sports, Team, Doctors

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• Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

  N.D. Wilson

  Years, Skating, Watches

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson

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• Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

  Lee Trevino

  Life, Sports, Games

  Lee Trevino, Sam Blair (1985). “The snake in the sandtrap (and other misadventures on the golf tour)”, Henry Holt & Co

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• Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Thinking, Should Have

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