Quotes About Athletics

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

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

I started skating when I was six years old.

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

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.

I really like figure skating.

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

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.

I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.

I remember watching the 2002 Olympic Games and watching the men's event. I just started figure skating, and I remember thinking how cool it would be to be there.

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.

At the Olympics, once I got there it was more about the full experience and skating to the best of my ability.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

It's crazy to think that back when I was 11 years old I was skating X Games.

My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

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

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.