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For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. — Kim Yuna

I think skating helped me find myself. — Peggy Fleming

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating. — Brittany Bowe

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

Elena scowled - the day she let Dmitri give her orders was the day ice-skating became a regular activity in hell. — Nalini Singh

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal. — Paul Parker

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much. — Nancy Kerrigan

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age." — Christian Hosoi

Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place. — Steve Caballero

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs. — Johnny Weir

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me. — Sasha Cohen

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff. — Amy Poehler

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. — Scott Hamilton

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints. — Patrick Chan

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. — Patrick Chan

Hell's put in a skating rink," Shane said. "This is actually edible, Eve. — Rachel Caine

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing. — Evgeni Plushenko

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

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom. — Kristi Yamaguchi

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. — Johnny Weir

Of course, a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating. — Rex Stout

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer. — Jackie Evancho

Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible. — Kurt Browning

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating. — Bonnie Blair

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

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater. — Liev Schreiber

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

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it. — Anton Yelchin

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. — Scott Hamilton

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal. — Hart Crane

People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating. — Daniel Johns

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. — Robert Frost

Icy pillars of serenity, spun from airy mist, entered my quiet vision in echoes of worlds unknown. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings. — Frank Carroll

It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile. — Elvis Stojko

In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it. — Gracie Gold

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating. — Sasha Cohen

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. — Ashley Wagner

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it. — Kristi Yamaguchi

Far as she knew, Hell hadn't opened its ice skating rink. — Janet Tait

I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life. — Oksana Baiul

Skating is now retro and hip. — Robin Cousins

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical. — Dorothy Hamill

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating. — Michelle Kwan

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do. — Barbara Ann Scott

I spent a little more than five months in Vienna. I danced. I went ice skating and skiing. For strenuous exercise, I argued with an Englishman. — J.D. Salinger

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating. — Julie Benz

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure. — Elvis Stojko

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic. — Johnny Weir

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way. — Brian Boitano

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. — Ashley Wagner

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

He was into the skating culture now and I was into, well, I'm not sure what I was into. I was into roaming around on my own, and I enjoyed it. — Markus Zusak

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer." — Rodney Dangerfield

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. — Katarina Witt

I started skating when I was six years old. — Nancy Kerrigan

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you. — Henry F. Ashurst

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at. — Maggie Grace

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating. — Kim Yuna

I begged my mom to let me start skating. — Debi Thomas

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice. — Dorothy Hamill

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do. — Clara Hughes

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up. — D. B. Sweeney

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in. — Ashley Wagner

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish. — Debi Thomas

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys. — Amy Smart

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well. — Adelina Sotnikova

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating. — Brittany Bowe

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. — Marvin Olasky

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know. — Scott Hamilton

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. — Scott Hamilton

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher. — Oksana Baiul

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%. — Gracie Gold

It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing. — Evgeni Plushenko

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage. — Bonnie Blair

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at. — Kim Yuna

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. — Gracie Gold

I didn't get into skating to be famous. — Eric Heiden

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. — Dorothy Hamill

Who knows why we tic tac? ...there's more to it than a desire to irritate. — Georgia Blain

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year. — Julia Lipnitskaya

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way. — Jennifer Aniston

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating. — Brian Boitano

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. — Scott Hamilton

Skating is in my heart, not my head — Michelle Kwan

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart. — Scott Hamilton

When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom made teaching went into my skating. — Ashley Wagner

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day. — T. V. Carpio

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time. — Carolina Kostner

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range. — Elvis Stojko

During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public. — Kim Yuna

What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. — Kim Yuna

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

Yeah, because off the ice the only language Stephanie speaks is fluent Bitch. — Jennifer Comeaux

Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks. — T.I.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. — Franklin P. Jones