Skater Quotes

• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  Vera Wang

  School, Mirrors, Dancer

  Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

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• One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

  Lil Wayne

  Never Quit, Quitting, Skateboarder

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• If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.

  Sonja Henie

  Running, Distance, Moving

  Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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• I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

  Michelle Kwan

  Soothing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

  Rebecca Miller

  Beach, Art, Drinking

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• Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

  Liza Minnelli

  Goodbye, Ice, Broadway

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• I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Fate, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

  Vera Wang

  Sacrifice, Athletic, Bed

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• Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

  Lance Mountain

  Sports, Skateboarding, Stopping

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• It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

  Katherine Reutter

  Strength, Inspirational Sports, Character

  "Olympic Q & A: Katherine Reutter, USA Speedskating". Interview with Jason Wachob, www.mindbodygreen.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

  Tana French

  Beautiful, Morning, Moving

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• If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

  Clara Hughes

  Dream, Athlete, Infinite Possibilities

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• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Basketball, Player, Numbers

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

  David Mitchell

  Track, Crosses, Figures

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.168, Random House Group

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• Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.

  Tony Hawk

  Relate, One Time, My Friends

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• You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.

  Craig Adams

  Practice, Guy, Nine

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• Whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. Where I used to practice in New York City, there was a mirror so you could actually watch yourself skate. And nowadays my golf teacher will film me swinging so I can see what I am doing. Having looked first at myself and my own body for so long as one does as a dancer and a skater, it was so natural to do fashion.

  Vera Wang

  Teacher, Fashion, Golf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Real, People

  "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

  Liev Schreiber

  Kids, Hockey, Play

  "Liev Schreiber On ‘Goon,’ Ice Hockey And Naomi Watts". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

  Apolo Ohno

  Running, Littles, Speed

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• I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

  Apolo Ohno

  Focus, Body, Symmetrical

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• I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.

  Johnny Weir

  Girl, Jobs, Men

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• I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

  Johnny Weir

  Fun, Passion, Athlete

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• Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Ice, Ideas

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