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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

  Dick Button

  Two, Giving, Competition

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• My goal, my dream has already come true. Every kid's dream is to become a pro skater, you know? Not only have I become a pro skater, but to me personally, I ride for the best sponsors there are. That's even more than I ever expected... I didn't skate to please everyone else. I started skating because I love to skate. you gotta watch out because there will come a point where you'll forget that.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Dream, Kids, Goal

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• I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

  Shani Davis

  Growing Up, Champion, Want

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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 didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Want, Figure Skating

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• I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

  Michio Kaku

  Appreciate, Helping, Newton

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.

  Jason Mraz

  Careers, Support, Trying

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• All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

  Kurt Browning

  Believe, Heart, Ovation

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• I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

  Stephen Colbert

  Ice, Why Not, Stuff

  Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2007.

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• The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual...that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Makeup, Hair, Lace

  Source: www.glamour.com

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