Quotes of: Skate Keyword

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

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

Patrick Chan

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

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

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

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

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Patrick Chan

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

There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.

Randy Gardner

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

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

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

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

Kristi Yamaguchi