Skates Quotes - Page 4

• I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Ice

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• In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

  Frank Mahovlich

  Team, Talking, Giving

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• Yeah, I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn to skate really good, and if I can't, I'm going to get hurt doing it.

  Tre Cool

  Hurt, Yeah, I Can

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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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• I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Pads, Action

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• It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles.

  Sidney Crosby

  Couple, Being Positive, Next Steps

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• I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

  Michelle Kwan

  Smile, Years, Ice

  "Encore Presentation: Michelle Kwan Looks for Gold in 2002". "People In The News", www.cnn.com. January 1, 2002.

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• I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.

  Michelle Kwan

  Mean Girls, People, Doing Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Player, Puck

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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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• We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Stars, Believe, Hockey

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• I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!

  Jade Puget

  Body, Lasts, Bones

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• People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads

  Jaden Smith

  Hate, People, Pads

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• Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

  Patrick Kane

  Dad, Get Better, Want

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• When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my résumé with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Kids, Ice, Tunes

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

  Jeff Ament

  Growing Up, Mean, Healthy

  "Ament lets it roll with Tres Mts". Interview with Jim Wilkie, www.espn.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours.

  Carolina Kostner

  Watches, Hours

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• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Parent, Lessons

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

  Hayley Wickenheiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  FaceBook post by Hayley Wickenheiser from Nov 29, 2015

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• The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

  Mike Liut

  Hockey, Luck, Puck

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• Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sitting, Lockers, Rooms

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