Browsing Topic Best Skates Quotes

When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my résumé with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn’t in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it’s a blast to watch.

The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don’t use anything in competition except myself. It’s just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you’re serious, and I’ve always liked it.

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

And thus Snow White became the prince’s bride.The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feastand when she arrived there werered-hot iron shoes,in the manner of red-hot roller skates,clamped upon her feet.

I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn’t hold my attention. I couldn’t figure skate. I’m afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

Once you turn pro and you’re making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

I skate all the time, but it’s silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don’t know if this is true – although it sounds good! – but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn’t keep up with me.

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

I think for kids it’s the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

I am just a person who can’t skate in the mountains

Being involved and hanging out with my brothers who skate is really amazing, especially because of our age. I mean, we’re in our mid-late forties and we’re still skateboarding in competitions. Who’d have ever thought?

It’s only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I’d call it a triumph.

I’ll skate on concrete if I have to. I’m not worried about how fast the ice is. I’m worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.

We’re all doing it for the love of the sport. We want to make Canada proud. I’m so fortunate to skate in a country like Canada.

I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall – because of the impact – my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.

On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I’ve always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, ‘Way too expensive.’

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘By getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

A corner of his mouth quirked up. I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about? Hockey? Polo? Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours.

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

Yea, Paris is a festive ton — a festive Ton for all! Skate o’er on joy — Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell’s beneath?

I’m trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we’re riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I’d ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

I skate for the fans. It’s not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.

I’m a wealthy man now. I’ve got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don’t care. I skate for the people. Besides, it’s pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

If I’m on skates, I feel at home no matter what I’m doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I’m not on skates, though, I feel very strange.