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

  Nancy Kerrigan

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• Skating is in my heart, not my head

  Michelle Kwan

  Heart, My Heart

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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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• 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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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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• 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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• I think skating helped me find myself.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Thinking, Figure Skating

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• And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

  Scott Hamilton

  Attention, Facts, Figures

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• And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Kind, Figures

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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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• 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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• When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

  Eric Heiden

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

  Andy Rooney

  Sexy, Hurt, Gymnastics

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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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• When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

  Michelle Kwan

  Legends, Figures, Remembered

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, America, Males

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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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• Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

  Scott Hamilton

  Judging, Half, Opinion

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