Skating Quotes - Page 2

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, America, Males

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Circles, Style

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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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• 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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• Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

  Hart Crane

  Broken Heart

  1930 The Bridge,'The Tunnel'.

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• I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Couple, Real

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.87, Scholastic UK

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• Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

  Johnny Weir

  Athletic, Artistic, Figures

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Technique, Dresses

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• Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Interest, Areas

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• Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

  Lil Wayne

  Sports, Style, Hobbies

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  Vera Wang

  Ideas, People, Levels

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• When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Giants

  Winston S. Churchill (2010). “Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War”, p.430, RosettaBooks

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• I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Land, Competition

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• I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

  Sasha Cohen

  Littles, Causes, Riot

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Men, Ice, Backyards

  "On the ‘Parks & Rec’ Set with Tatiana Maslany". Interview, etcanada.com. October 15, 2013.

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• One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Regret, Trying, Going For It

  "Kristi Yamaguchi: Olympic Medalist, Fitness Guru And Mom". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 26, 2011.

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• I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Ice, People

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

  Zoey Dean

  Parks, Degrees, Macs

  Zoey Dean (2008). “Almost Famous, A Talent novel”, p.105, Penguin

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• When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Ice, Play

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• With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

  Apolo Ohno

  Weight, Legs, Speed

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• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  Rachel McAdams

  Sports, Art, Dad

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