Quotes of: Figure-skating Keyword

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.

Carolina Kostner

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

David Walton

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

George Sanders

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

John McCarthy

The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.

Dorothy Hamill

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

Oksana Baiul

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Richard Seymour

Benjy Benjamin: Look! We've figured it seventeen different ways, and every time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody don't like the way we figured it! So now, there's only one way to figure it. And that is, eve...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we’ll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don’t live on...

Mikawadizi Storms

A figure 8 doesn’t figure into my plans to live to infinity.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

Wole Soyinka

Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

Apolo Ohno

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

Nancy Kerrigan

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.

Tony Hawk

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

John Robinson

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

J. R. Celski

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

Oksana Baiul