Skates Quotes

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  I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub

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• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny Inspirational, Octopus, Discipline

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• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Octopus, Discipline, Roller Skating

  "Stop Throwing Yourself Off-Balance - 5 Factors to be Mindful of When Making Business Decisions" by Valeh Nazemoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

  Scott Hamilton

  Years, Nine, Firsts

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• Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

  J. D. Salinger

  Giving, Ends, Give Me

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

  Holland Taylor

  Doe, Playing Someone, Want

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• I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

  Sarah Hughes

  Dream, Thinking, Skating

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• Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.

  Mats Sundin

  Drunk, Sober, Faster

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• You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

  Joe Sakic

  Hockey, Play, Spots

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• I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

  Clara Hughes

  Winning, Average, Training

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• You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

  Joe Sakic

  Blow, Ice, Knowing

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• I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

  Tony Hawk

  Cities, Individuality, Parks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

  Bobby Orr

  Kids, Sneakers, Role Models

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• If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.

  Leopold Fechtner

  Children, Dark, House

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• I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

  Ben Stiller

  Hockey, Play, Comfortable

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• And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
  The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
  and when she arrived there were
  red-hot iron shoes,
  in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
  clamped upon her feet.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Queens, Iron

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

  Walter Hill

  Revenge, Drama, Ice

  Source: collider.com

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• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

  Patrick Chan

  Desire, Care, Wells

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• Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.

  Paul Coffey

  Sports, Fighting, Guy

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

  Jacques Barzun

  Summer, Winter, Swim

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• The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.

  Bobby Hull

  Two, Hands, Parent

  "One on One with Bobby Hull". www.hhof.com. December 11, 2001.

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• Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

  Leonard Bishop

  Believe, Writing, Elephants

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• A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

  David Seabury

  Perseverance, Boys, Littles

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• Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

  Frank Zappa

  Fun, Stupid, Gun

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