Skates Quotes - Page 7

• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Thinking, Hair

  "The Lost World". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 159, 1965.

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• You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ice, Ridiculous, Life Is

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3093, e-artnow

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• The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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• There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Puck, Wayne

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

  Leonard Bishop

  Believe, Writing, Elephants

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• Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.

  Nyjah Huston

  Girl, Believe, Skateboarding

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• I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first couple we were tentative a little bit, that energy, maybe excite. I saw in the last couple of games we've been able to channel that and use it in a positive way to go, be aggressive, physical and skate. When we're skating and physical we're at our best and put a lot of pressure on the other team that way.

  Jarome Iginla

  Couple, Team, Hockey

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• A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

  Pierre Page

  Hockey, Player, Able

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• I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Soccer, Baseball, Hockey

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• People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

  Hayley Wickenheiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  FaceBook post by Hayley Wickenheiser from Nov 29, 2015

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• The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

  Mike Liut

  Hockey, Luck, Puck

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• Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sitting, Lockers, Rooms

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

  Ben Stiller

  Hockey, Play, Comfortable

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• My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

  Bonnie Blair

  Sports, Parent, Age

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• I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

  Bobby Hull

  Kids, Thinking, Games

  "One on One with Bobby Hull". www.hhof.com. December 11, 2001.

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• L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.

  Ian Shoales

  Taken, Angel, Cities

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

  John Templeton

  Failure, Fall, Doors

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• Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.

  Mats Sundin

  Drunk, Sober, Faster

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Parent

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• Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Leadership, Sports, New York

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• He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Running, Hills, Heavy

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.100, Grove Press

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• They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

  Eric Idle

  Kids, Drug, Typical

  "Fictional character: First Bruce". "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl", www.imdb.com. June 25, 1982.

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• I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

  Bam Margera

  Silly, Mtv, Giving

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