Quotes About Youth

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.

I want to be a skater.

I started off as a recording engineer and a beatmaker. I was this skater kid that would skateboard to auditions, and then I would use the money I'd make and buy a bunch of equipment and make a bunch of beats. I still am that kid, just with a little more money.

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

I love teaching the younger skaters.

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

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.

My oldest brother was two years older than me, and a really awesome skater.

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

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

I've been on skates since age 5.

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

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

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

I started skating when I was 2 years old because of my older sister Natasha was a skater, and I wanted to be just like her!

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

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.

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.

It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.

I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.

I used to roller skate a lot in my youth on Taft Avenue, Manila. That is the reason there is always a skating area in all my SM malls. I want more people to share my love for skating.

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.