Skating Quotes

• Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Night, Ice

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• The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

  Barbara Ann Scott

  Important, Want, Should

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• And I love what I do and I love skating.

  Nancy Kerrigan

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• Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

  Apolo Ohno

  Positive, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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• Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

  Gracie Gold

  Beautiful, Athletic, Feels

  "Olympic skater Gracie Gold's secret to a tight, toned core". www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2014.

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• I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

  Anton Yelchin

  Ice, Ice Skating, Very Good

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• And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Hiking, Feels

  "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Football, Winter

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• Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

  Scott Hamilton

  Judging, Half, Opinion

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• What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

  Scott Hamilton

  Friendship, Girl, Sports

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• You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

  Apolo Ohno

  Failure, Positivity, Ice Skating

  Apolo Ohno (2010). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• I think skating helped me find myself.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Thinking, Figure Skating

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• In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?

  Salman Rushdie

  Issues, Blood, World Religions

  "Religion, as ever, is the poison in India's blood" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2002.

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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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• Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Art, Water, Pieces

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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• Skating is in my heart, not my head

  Michelle Kwan

  Heart, My Heart

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• I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

  Tony Hawk

  Skateboarding, Quitting, Skateboarder

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• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  Katarina Witt

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Heart, People

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• It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Bad Ass, Figures, Figure Skating

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• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  Katarina Witt

  Sports, Art, Mixtures

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• I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

  Scott Hamilton

  Girl, Sports, Calculus

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• If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Years, Goal

  "Shaun White On His Skateboarding Future, Hanging With Guns N’ Roses & One ‘Painful’ Miley Cyrus Song". www.accessonline.com. March 3, 2010.

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• My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Passion, Blessing, Opportunity

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• At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Girl, Sports, School

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