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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who were two major heroes of mine, and be asked to skate for that team and be a part of their company.

  Mike Vallely

  Dream, Team, Hero

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.

  Anita DeFrantz

  Cute, Girl, Sports

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• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Two, Transition

  Golden Skate Online Interview, goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.

  Carolina Kostner

  Jobs, Skating, Care

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• I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

  Kurt Browning

  Country, Mean, Skating

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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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• I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

  Jeremy Abbott

  Thinking, Competition, Done

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• As an athlete, everyone was always like, 'Listen to your body.' Whether it's an injury or whether it's just a nagging ache, that can affect your progress just because you think 'Oh, I'll push through it today' and then you can't work out for two weeks. I've learned that, as a skater, I'm very aware of that.

  Tara Lipinski

  Athlete, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A skater goes through a lot of different feelings during a competition. Staying calm is the key point. You feel a little anxious, a little nervous, a little unsettled. That's when you've got to trust your feelings, trust your abilities. Believe in what you have worked for so long to achieve. Have faith in yourself.

  Elvis Stojko

  Believe, Keys, Long

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• As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.

  Russell Sherman

  Crush, Horse, Artist

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