Skates Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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 think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first couple we were tentative a little bit, that energy, maybe excite. I saw in the last couple of games we've been able to channel that and use it in a positive way to go, be aggressive, physical and skate. When we're skating and physical we're at our best and put a lot of pressure on the other team that way.

  Jarome Iginla

  Couple, Team, Hockey

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• A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

  Pierre Page

  Hockey, Player, Able

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• I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Soccer, Baseball, Hockey

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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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• No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.

  Martin Brodeur

  Hockey, Nhl, Way

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• It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Fun, Martini

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• When it comes down to competition, its not always about the best skater, its about who skates the best in that competition.

  Gracie Gold

  Competition, Skater

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• I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

  Leonard Cohen

  Travel, Home, Want

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.233, Vintage

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• I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Knowing, Hustle, Way

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• My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Beautiful, Book, Poetry

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Puck, Wayne

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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