Skating Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

  Paul Theroux

  Mother, Morning, Home

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". The Atlantic Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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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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• The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!

  Karen Magnussen

  Important, Spinner, Findings

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• When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

  Peggy Fleming

  Fighting, Stay Positive, Down And

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• If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Bad Ass, Dancing, Champion

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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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• He's skating like he's 36 again.

  Mike Keane

  Hockey, Nhl

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• High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating.

  Scotty Bowman

  Funny, Fighting, Hockey

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• People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

  Frank Carroll

  Sports, Long, Doe

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• Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

  Debi Thomas

  Real, Life Changing, Titles

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• My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

  Anton Yelchin

  Growing Up, Should Have, Parent

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• Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

  Amy Smart

  Growing Up, Boys, Growing

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• Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Morning, Fun, Moving

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• Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

  Tonya Harding

  Maps, Made, Livelihood

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• Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

  Todd Bridges

  Ice, Two, Different

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• Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

  Chris Jericho

  Sports, Wrestling, Gymnastics

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• Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Heart, Soul

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Giving, Wanted

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Mom, Focus, Ready

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• That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

  Dick Button

  Two, Giving, Competition

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• Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.

  Rodney Mullen

  Style, Done, Kind

  "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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• I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

  Kenny Baker

  Holiday, Ice, Chance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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