Skating Quotes
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I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
Scott Hamilton
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Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
Hart Crane
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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.
Sasha Cohen
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Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That's why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others' skating because we know how much work goes into it.
Mirai Nagasu
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Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.
N.D. Wilson
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When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
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I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.
Sasha Cohen
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When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.
Apolo Ohno
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When a skater gets older, they become more mature, and they can assume more responsibility for their skating, ... That's how I've evolved. I know what works and what doesn't, and Mr. Nicks is a great coach for me.
Sasha Cohen
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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.
Sarah Hughes
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It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.
Jostein Gaarder
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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
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I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.
T.I.
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I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.
Scott Hamilton
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For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.
Ryan Sheckler
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Skating for me is, like, I get so much satisfaction from doing something that I get stoked on.
Nyjah Huston
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My mom is really dedicated to me. She drives me to school and skating, wakes up for me, and I'm just really appreciative.
Mirai Nagasu
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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
Scott Hamilton
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It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
Evgeni Plushenko
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I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal when I finished skating. I was just in a little bit of shock.
Sasha Cohen
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We were always skating on thin ice, Shaking the wrong dice, Swimming against the tide, Playing on the wrong side, Yes you were the player, and you were so cool, I was the greenhorn, King of the fools, Painting the picture, to fit with the frame, Chan.
Keith Reid Procol Harum
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Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.
Michelle Kwan
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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
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Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.
Mirai Nagasu