Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Yuna

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was this cute boy there that I liked. It kind of influenced me to keep going.

E. B. White

What this demonstrates is that Iraq is really skating on the edge of chaos, that things can go very bad very quickly.

We're going to have to play solid in both games. We're going to have to really be skating a strong game we need solid efforts from everybody. We need everybody to play their role and play within their ability as a team.

We're in very good shape as far as skill, experience and skating ability there.

Charlie Kaufman

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

We are preparing for every game to play our game. We have to be skating for three periods to be successful and when don't skate we are not a good team.

Eric Heiden

When you think about these single distances championships and these World Cup races, people can make a career out of skating one or two distances.

Carolina Kostner

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.

Clara Hughes

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.

Apolo Ohno

With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Brian Boitano

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

Brian Boitano

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

Tara Lipinski

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

Johnny Weir

I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.

Dany Heatley

We were in a rut. We've just got to play our game, get back to the way we were. We're skating now, moving our feet. All three of us are back in the groove now. We're supporting each other well.

Kenny Baker

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

Kevin O'Leary

We knew they were a good skating team. We came out trying to force their hand with some hitting and our guys got caught up in that a little bit too much. We lost sight of the puck and they're a very good team. They find their open players very well.

John Baldwin

We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level.

Mike Babcock

We want him to feel good and be an important part of our team. He told me the other day that he feels he's skating well, and that his leg doesn't hurt. Well that's great news for us. He's dominant in the face-off circle, his brain works all the time; he knows how to play in all situations.

Irina Slutskaya

I was so sad not to find her at the China Cup, ... When you know a skater for a long time, skating everywhere together, you feel some people who get close to you. We are friendly and I wish to talk to her.

I was skating for all the wrong reasons. It became a job. The coach-student relationship wasn't clicking the way it used to. It wasn't fun anymore. I was completely burned out. I was just done.

Marian Gaborik

I was skating for 10 days, so I felt good out there. The biggest thing is we won the game.

Sheldon Souray

I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important.

Tony Hawk

Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.

When we skate like that for three periods, we're extremely happy. We had tendencies earlier in the year to slow down or take a period off. (Tuesday) we skated hard all three periods and got all four lines involved. When we're skating (like that) teams don't know our first line from our fourth.

There are two indoor skating rinks in Polk County, and both of them are in Urbandale. Can we all agree that we don't need any more ice?

Shizuka Arakawa

I got a strong feeling while I was skating here that this was going to be one last highlight for my skating career. I had basically the same feeling at the world championships two years ago.

If the skating one day will end, we're still going to go on. We're still going to figure out something together. The future of us is together and our home is here.

David Pelletier

I always question a little bit that event, ice dancing. Because I've been in skating a long time and I'm still not sure what I'm watching sometimes. I don't know if I'm watching some kind of a dress-up event, where whoever has the best dress is going to win, maybe, or who has the best hair extensions.

He has no idea what his skating does to people.

He has just smoothed it out. Fifteen, 20 years ago, not as many people were able to improve their skating as much as now. It might be a combination of the players being in top condition, that they have more access to skating instructors. Maybe the modern skates allow you to improve your skating.

He looked like your little brother that your mom makes you take to the skating rink.