Quotes About Sports

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

My family members were always there and I was very fortunate for that I mean, I played hockey growing up. That was the sport everyone in Charlestown played back then, and I had skates and the equipment, but I was growing so fast, it became hard to afford new stuff every year. But hockey was it for me.

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

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

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

I don't think the demographic for skating really entails a lot of basketball watching.

I used to ice skate at parties when I was eight, but that was sort of the extent of roller skating, ice skating, that kind of sport.

I slalom ski. I wakeboard. I hike and rock climb.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I've always been big into snowmobiles, four-wheelers, jet skis, all kinds of those X Games kind of things.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

My mother was a skier who represented Hungary in the 1936 Olympics, and she was very health-conscious.

I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

I ski and grew up skiing.

I want to learn skiing and parallel bar gymnastics.

The only sport I was good at was skiing.

I go to the gym every week and I love cross-country running, walking, boxing, football and skiing.

I have a lot of interests outside of football like motorcross, skiing and enjoying experiences with my family.

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.