Ice Skating Quotes

• Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

  Todd Bridges

  Ice, Two, Skating

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• 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.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Easter, Moving

  Forbes, Volume 180, Issues 8-13, 2007.

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• I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

  Kenny Baker

  Holiday, Ice, Skating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Morning, Fun, Moving

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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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• 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.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Ice, People

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  Katarina Witt

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

  Apolo Ohno

  Positive, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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• Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

  Kevin Keegan

  Ice, Effort, Skating

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• You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

  Apolo Ohno

  Failure, Positivity, Dwelling

  Apolo Ohno (2010). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  Little Richard

  Hate, Ice, Trying

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• People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

  Daniel Johns

  Sarcasm, Ice, People

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• If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

  Dorothy Hamill

  Business, Crazy, Ice

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• I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

  Anton Yelchin

  Ice, Skating, Very Good

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• If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Home, Thinking, Matter

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• It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don't think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids--I'm just in touch with myself. It's exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion.

  Tenley Albright

  Freedom, Moving, Kids

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• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  Maggie Grace

  Ice, Tennis, Skating

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• I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  Jackie Evancho

  Summer, Swimming, Ice

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• Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Oxygen, Ice, Breathing

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Mom, Mother

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Ice, Play

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• I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Couple, Real

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.87, Scholastic UK

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• When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate.

  Gayle Forman

  Senior, Years, Ice

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