Top 282 Skating Quotes

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
Nancy Kerrigan
Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.
Shani Davis
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
Janine di Giovanni
Inner-thigh strength is important, and not just for appearance sake. If you enjoy – or have always wanted to try – ice skating or roller blading, strong inner thighs will come in handy.
Denise Austin
I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.
Frank Dukes
I’d say street skating is the most fun of the six skateboarding events for me personally. It’s also because you can do it anywhere. You don’t need a specific ramp or competition; you can just go shred anywhere around your hometown and have a blast with it. That’s the best part about street skating.
Nyjah Huston
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.
Andy Rooney
Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
Carl Hagelin
Skating and style just goes hand in hand, I think.
Nyjah Huston
I’d like to cause a little riot in skating.
Sasha Cohen
Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn’t know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.
Kristi Yamaguchi
I have always been skating, either with skateboards, ripsticks, longboards – so it’s been really easy to get used to the electric board. And no, you don’t have to wear certain shoes. I love to wear my crocs!
Bretman Rock
In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most p

In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most powerful lower half of the body and don’t want to have any weight on top.
Eddy Alvarez
My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup – a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers – but it was dope, though; it was something. That was kind of how it was: just going to school, skating back home, making music, telling my parents I did my homework.
Cuco
I want to be shooter, be competitive, go to the net, so it has changed, but it hasn’t changed that much. It’s more skating than it used to be for sure.
Jarome Iginla
I do very scientific-based training. However, for skating, that’s a little bit out of the ordinary. Many skaters base their off-ice training around plyometrics, whereas mine is very strength- and power-based.
Nathan Chen
Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it’s part of the reason why I loved skating. You’re literally in a fishbowl. You’re in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.
Kaetlyn Osmond
I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.
Nathan Chen
It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
Preston Sturges
We’re very passionate about figure skating but it’s a huge world out there and there’s a lot of opportunity, and it’ll be so much fun to see where we go.
Scott Moir
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it’s just something that happened, you know.
Scott Hamilton
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.
Jennifer Aniston
I’m supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.
Mary Docter
When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.
Nathan Chen
That’s what we love to do and I think our skating’s at it’s best when we do that: when we draw people in and hopefully make them feel something.
Scott Moir
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
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.
Andy Rooney
I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.
Lindsay Fox
I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.
Nathan Chen
Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.
Nathan Chen
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
Sasha Cohen
My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate – especially my dad – he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too.
Mirai Nagasu
My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment – TV – Hollywood – whatever have you – always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.
Apolo Ohno
I wouldn’t be face-washing anyone in real life. I’d be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
Patrick Kane
Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It’s just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink.
Michio Kaku
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother’s old ones.
Dorothy Hamill
The way I balance life and skating is by enjoying the time I spend away from the rink. When I am not on the ice, I am not focusing on skating.
Kaetlyn Osmond
I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one of them. When I saw people flying all around – literally flying in and out of bowls – that is when I knew I wanted to do it. I wanted to figure out how I could get there and how I could fly.
Tony Hawk
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
Gracie Gold
There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball.
Eddy Alvarez
Skating has given me so much that it’s priceless.
Michelle Kwan
We’re always skating to wherever the puck is going.
Lowell McAdam
I don't have many hobbies outside of skating. But I do

I don’t have many hobbies outside of skating. But I do read, watch TV, play with my animals, and try to hang out with my friends every now and then.
Kaetlyn Osmond
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.
Chris Jericho
I never ever wanted to change my sport… Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I’d made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.
Johnny Weir
There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I’m not very smart, and I’m not very pretty, and there’s nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.
Mirai Nagasu
I love skating. It’s part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.
Nathan Chen
I just try to touch people’s hearts in a way through skating, so they’re not just witnessing a performance, they’re feeling a performance and they’re a part of it.
Scott Hamilton
It’s crazy to think that back when I was 11 years old I was skating X Games.
Nyjah Huston
I knew without doubt that I would try and continue my education as I was skating.
Tessa Virtue
I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.
Kristi Yamaguchi
There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball.
Eddy Alvarez
Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, ‘I have to do this to win.’ I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
I would like to learn so many things: I’d like to take tennis classes, I’d like continuing vocal lessons, and I’d definitely like taking more ice skating and more tap.
Sofia Vassilieva
A lot of the figure skating costumes are kind of revealing, so I think it’s nice to have glowing, soft, smooth skin.
Tessa Virtue
My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It’s a bit of a mess to watch!
Margot Robbie
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