I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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.
That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.
Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.
I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%.
You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.
I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.
For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.
I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.
[last lines] Anna: I like the open gates. Elsa: We are never closing them again. [uses her magic to give Anna a pair of skates] Anna: Oh, Elsa, they're beautiful, but you know I don't skate. Elsa: [pulling her] Come on! You can do it! Kristoff: Look ...
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.
All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!
