Quotes About Skating

I have always believed that I am an amazing skater regardless of what the results say, and I think that determination and confidence has kept me in the game so long.

I was a really good ice hockey player when I was a kid. Now in the aftermath I think I wasn't maybe big enough, and I couldn't have put on enough muscle to actually be able to play with the better guys, but I was a really good skater.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn't strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd!

I've been on skates since age 5.

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.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

I am gutted not to be taking part in 'Dancing on Ice.' I was having a brilliant time and couldn't wait to finally be skating live on national TV!

I think back to my time when I was skating: I was 15, and there was no such thing as Instagram.

Baseball is my true passion. Skating was more of a short-term goal.

School for me has always been a really great balance with the skating.

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.

My family and parents were very influential in my skating career.

I've been skating since I was 10 years old.

The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.

My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!

When we get off the line in skating we kind of look like little ducks running.

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.

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.