Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alissa Czisny

I'm tired, but I'm used to skating tired so I just tried to go out there thinking about my jumps,

It's the complexity of the turns, the changes of the direction, and the body and how well it's skated and how effortless he makes it look. The one thing about his skating is that you rarely ever hear him.

It's like a seven-acre skating rink of snowy dirt.

I knew Carl and I were skating for silver.

Dorothy Hamill

I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm quite comfortable with my skating now and I think I made the right decision over the music changes. I want to perform the way people might say they want to watch it again.

I'm just happy that I'm skating really good. Sometimes when you're not feeling good, you concentrate twice as much. I think that was helping today.

I had to push myself harder and harder, and that's why I did the job. I just thought about my skating and not about the other skaters.

Jeff Ament

I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

No, I'm not surprised that it's a huge deal. Michelle has been a marvelous champion. She's a terrific athlete. It's clear that skating fans everywhere adore her, and they should. She's been a terrific image for the sport of figure skating, so I'm not surprised that there's all this attention.

Tatiana Totmianina

It was perfect skating to end a perfect career. I can't explain the emotions I feel right now.

Lindy Ruff

It's what our team's been about. It's a willingness for every individual to get dirty, every guy to take it to the hole and not have too many days off. Every guy has a tough night, but don't keep repeating it. He doesn't. He's a scrappy little skater. He's maintained a very high level of skating throughout the year. It's probably been his biggest asset.

It's time to get myself focused on skating again. Having a high goal to shoot for is good for me, so hopefully I'll win a place on the podium -- any of the top three.

Sasha Cohen

I'm used to skating in all positions, first or last. You take it all in stride and do your job.

I had a jump mistake, but my skate was better than qualifying. My skating skills were better, with higher points.

Peggy Fleming

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

Peggy Fleming

I think skating helped me find myself.

Peggy Fleming

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

Lance Armstrong

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Johnny Weir

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

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

Johnny Weir

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

Johnny Weir

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

Johnny Weir

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

These kids don't understand, when you're skating on the outside in cold weather, you can skate forever. But the problem is you've got to come back to the bench and the kids are freezing because they've been sitting there for two or three minutes.

Jason Bartlett

The ice skating for me was definitely a highlight. And to see all those kids out there with baseballs and so excited and ready to have them signed was great.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Eric Heiden

If you're a public relations person, any press is good press. It certainly brings more to the story than just skating laps and who's winning a gold medal.

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

In penalty shooting, it's like a lottery. We had a 16-year-old skating in there and putting the first one in, and the USA had two hit the crossbar. So it's small things that gave us this win.

George Sanders

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Once I got there and started skating every day, I knew I had to make a full commitment. Somebody told me, a coach a long time ago, that if you want to make the Olympic team, you have to dedicate your entire life, sacrifice everything. I wasn't ready to do that before.

He's a really enthusiastic coach, as passionate about coaching as I am about skating. And Michelle is a fierce trainer. It's a great skating atmosphere.