Skating quotes
115 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
"Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go."
"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."
"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."
"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."
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"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 started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be."
"Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day."
"Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here."
"I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser."
"I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it."
"Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible."
"That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating."
"Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added."
"Skating has always been a major area of interest to me."
"I'd like to cause a little riot in skating."
