Skater Quotes - Page 2

• I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Different, Kind

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

  Brian Boitano

  Iron, People, Hot

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

  Stacy Peralta

  Realizing, Film, Made

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• There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.

  Christian Hosoi

  Two, Style, Hawks

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• Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

  Stacy Peralta

  Real, Men, Firsts

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• Skaters are very much like peacocks.

  Jon Heder

  Peacock

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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 never been the stereotypical figure skater.

  Tonya Harding

  Figures

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• Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

  Ellie Goulding

  Girl, Thinking, Style

  "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

  Bret Anthony Johnston

  Dog, Rejection, Salt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

  Sylvia Plath

  Space, Dumb, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

  Robin Cousins

  Stars, Athlete, Skating

  "Cousins Continues to Entertain". Golden Skate Interview, goldenskate.com. December 6, 2003.

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• Skaters are infamously superstitious.

  Ashley Wagner

  Superstitious

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• Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Hockey, Player, Perception

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Strike while the iron is hot.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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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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