Top 282 Skating Quotes

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad’s strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.
George Packer
When I was in the care system, I lived for skating and drawing. I lived on roller skates.
Goldie
Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it’s all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.
Johnny Weir
I would skate in the '80s. I started skating with Jorda

I would skate in the ’80s. I started skating with Jordan 1s, and that was a big deal. I looked different, because no one was getting with Jordan 1s. That became my little thing. I grew up in Hollywood.
Shavo Odadjian
I like skating big stuff, and you need the power to get on those obstacles and take the impact coming off. You need the strength to take the hard falls.
Nyjah Huston
I’ve never been ice skating, ever. I’m traumatized by the idea of it.
Sebastian Stan
I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.
Ryan Sheckler
A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, ‘Well, it’s skate, so it’s got to be, like, big baggy pants, cap backwards, big chain’… They don’t understand that just because skating is the culture we’re working in, it doesn’t mean that we can’t make good things.
James Jebbia
Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
D. B. Sweeney
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
Let’s put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who’s a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
Gary Bettman
Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.
John Robinson
To be out there in the Olympics skating the board that’s actually my own and a company that me and my homies have started. It’s a special feeling and it’s only more motivation to go out there and kill it.
Nyjah Huston
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Barbara Ann Scott
When I am skating, economics is far away. I always return refreshed and ready to carry on.
Robert F. Engle
I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn’t grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
Woody Harrelson
When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
Kim Yuna
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
When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
Brittany Bowe
I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
Scott Hamilton
For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don’t know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn’t a professional skateboarder, I’d still be skating every day.
Ryan Sheckler
Everything that I’ve ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
Scott Hamilton
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
It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Franklin P. Jones
Figure skating is not a hobby. It’s my work, which I want to do, and do well.
Adelina Sotnikova
We’ll know when our skating career is over by how we’ve progressed over the years and if we think we’ve got to a place where we couldn’t do any better – then it would be time to retire.
Scott Moir
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I’m still the underdog.
Shaun White
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
I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it’s a great workout.
Oksana Baiul
I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn’t really skating up and down the street.
Zoe Bell
That’s the thing about ice skating, you can just fall awkwardly like that.
Chesney Hawkes
Figure skating is such an individual sport, but to have a teammate on the podium with you is unbelievable.
Kaetlyn Osmond
I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that’s what I’m meant to do.
Clara Hughes
I think skating helped me find myself.
Peggy Fleming
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It’s an amazing feeling.
Johnny Weir
To me, skating should look effortless even when you’re doing the hardest of elements.
Johnny Weir
Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects – television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving – is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don’t have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.
Johnny Weir
I love going to around the public parks and just skating around the kids and stuff with them and obviously going out with my friends and going out and hitting the streets and stuff.
Nyjah Huston
People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn’t. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
Dorothy Hamill
For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
Kim Yuna
Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
Bonnie Blair
I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it’s something I’ll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
Gareth Gates
As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.
Shani Davis
I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
Nancy Kerrigan
I just played football from an early age and didn’t get involved in any other sports. We had tennis, cycling, ice skating – I’d like to have skated more, because it’s so physical. Ten minutes on the ice and you really feel it in your back.
Jaap Stam
Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that’s what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.
Nathan Chen
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
I was just cruising around the streets of South Beach and got scouted. Two ladies stopped my parents and said, ‘This kid needs to try the sport of inline speed skating,’ so I did and I remember falling in love with it and the thrill of racing.
Eddy Alvarez
With speed skating, it’s like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you’re in such a weird position.
Apolo Ohno
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
What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating – all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.
Michelle Kwan
The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.
Nathan Chen
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
It’s funny: when you’re skating around during warm-ups, I’ll see signs that say things like: ‘Kane, Prom?’ We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.
Patrick Kane
The scenes in ‘The Virgin Suicides’ where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
Charli XCX
I was really, really, really feminine and really into cheerleading and really into figure skating and really into gymnastics. Really into everything that other boys weren’t.
Jonathan Van Ness
I definitely tried to skateboard in middle school, and being from San Diego, surf and skate culture is a big, prevalent thing. But I was not that good – I was kind of a chubby kid and didn’t totally master skating.
Kyle Mooney
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don’t have to think about anything but skating. You’re just plain spoiled.
Dorothy Hamill