Quotes About Skating

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.

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

On the ice, I feel like I can become a different person, and the darker dramatics, the Black Swan, is confident: she's free to do whatever she wants, and that attitude helps in my skating. The White Swan is, I feel, more what I'm actually like off the ice: I'm a lot quieter, and if someone tells me to do something, I'll just do it.

The new moon is rising the eyelid of God is approaching The humane train the skating raining travelling voice of certainty

I think skating helped me find myself.

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.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

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.

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.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

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!

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

With his iPod all the way up, nothing in this world can touch him. Just over his pulse is a fresh tattoo- a dotted line and the words -----Cut Here----- Grief is a street he skates down. Hey, donkey's ass! He bides his time, sanding away his fingerprints, wondering how he could get his assailants in one room.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.