Skating Quotes - Page 9

• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  Little Richard

  Hate, Ice, Trying

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• Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

  Jeff Ament

  Writing, School, Rocks

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• Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

  Shaun White

  Giving, Surfing, Balance

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• I begged my mom to let me start skating.

  Debi Thomas

  Mom, My Mom, Let Me

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• Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

  Michelle Kwan

  Fun, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

  Kurt Browning

  Fun, Preparation, Pressure

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• Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

  Scott Hamilton

  Perseverance, Adversity, Able

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• I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Motivational, Athlete, World

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

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• If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

  Anita Shreve

  Dance, Skating On Thin Ice, Might

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• One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Moving, Unique

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• My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

  Debi Thomas

  Mother, Ice, Different

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• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  Vera Wang

  School, Mirrors, Dancer

  Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.

  Johnny Weir

  Ice, People, Flying

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• For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter.

  Tony Hawk

  Daughter, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Tony Hawk from Dec 17, 2012

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of The Brady Bunch. Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying “hi” to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

  Marlee Matlin

  Girl, Growing Up, Long

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

  Jessica Lange

  Family, Mother, Taken

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• There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.

  Christian Hosoi

  Two, Style, Hawks

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• I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

  Debi Thomas

  Watches, Looking Forward

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• Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

  George Sanders

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

  Rex Stout

  Ice, Safety, Holes

  Rex Stout (2013). “Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One”, p.128, Bantam

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• Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Politics, Want, Damn

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• My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Mom, Mother

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

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• Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

  Joan Cusack

  Hockey, Boys, Play

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• I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  Vash Young

  Real, Golf, Long Walks

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