Skates Quotes

• 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 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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• 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 skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Motivated, Beats

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• I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.

  Apolo Ohno

  Wall, Knives, Impact

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• I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

  Carre Otis

  Running, Feet, Mountain

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• I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Ice, Quads

  "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 8, 2009.

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• At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Events, Calendars

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• You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

  Junior Seau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

  Bobby Hull

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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

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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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• Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

  D. H. Lawrence

  What Matters, Paris, Joy

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• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Thinking, Hair

  "The Lost World". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 159, 1965.

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• The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

  Albert Hammond, Jr.

  People, Firsts, Four

  "Like father, like son". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2005.

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• You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ice, Ridiculous, Life Is

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3093, e-artnow

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• I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Needs, Competing, Contests

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• This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.

  Ryan Sheckler

  New York, Cities, People

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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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• On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Ideas, Alaska

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• I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Helping, Help Me

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

  Susan Rice

  Luxury, Risk, Suffering

  "Each Side Has to Do More". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. July 21, 2008.

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• I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.

  Maeve Binchy

  Dog, Children, People

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• A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Color, Should Have, Personality

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