Skates Quotes - Page 2

• People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  People, Doing Me, Ask Me

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• That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Football, Hockey, Games

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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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 am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Hurt

  "Q&A with Ryan Sheckler". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. August 01, 2009.

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• I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Fun

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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'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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• For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.

  Johnny Weir

  Football, Fashion, Strong

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• Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Stupid, Winning, Dedication

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• She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

  David Nicholls

  Flirting, Light, Sun

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

  Douglas Coupland

  Smart, Thinking, Doors

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• A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

  Devon Monk

  Sports, Horse, Hockey

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

  Joni Mitchell

  Rivers, Wish

  Song: I Wish I Had A River

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• I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

  Kenny Baker

  Years, Europe, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

  Steve Hamilton

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

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• He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Queens, Snow, World

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen’s Fairy Tales”, p.85, Hans Christian Andersen

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• I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Want, Way

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• I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Falling In Love, School, Cutting

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• It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Ice, Gathering

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• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Men, Progress

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  Anne Carson

  Cutting, Orange, Quota

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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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• If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

  Roald Dahl

  Lord, Walks, Ifs

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• Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

  Rodney Mullen

  Eye, Night, Talking

  "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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