Good Skating Quotes & Sayings

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating. — Joe Sakic

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. — Joyce Meyer

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world. — Tyra Banks

Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things ... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am. — Johnny Weir

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances. — Dick Button

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people. — Edward Robert Harrison

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. (This is not actually true. The raid to Hell is paved with frozen door-to-door salesman. On weekends, many of the younger demons go ice skating down it.) — Terry Pratchett

There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan. — Jen Kirkman

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it. — Anton Yelchin

Will knew he would never be good in that way. He would never look at a hairy jumper and work out why it was precisely right for him, and why he should wear it at all hours of the day and night. He would look at it and conclude that the person who bought it for him was a pillock. He did that all the time: he'd look at some twenty-five-year-old guy on roller-skates, sashaying his way down Upper Street with his wraparound shades on, and he'd think one of three things: 1) What a prat; or 2) Who the fuck do you think you are?, or 3) How old do you think you are? Fourteen?
Everyone in England was like that, he reckoned. Nobody looked at a roller-skating bloke with wraparound shades on and thought, hey, he looks cool, or, wow, that looks like a fun way of getting some exercise. They just thought: wanker. But Marcus wouldn't. Marcus would either fail to notice the guy at all, or he would stand there with his mouth open, lost in admiration and wonder. — Nick Hornby

Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go. — Ryan Sheckler

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. — Ann Richards

MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY! — Alexandre Dumas

Once or twice every night, serving dinner at the big round table, Enid glanced over her shoulder and caught him looking, and made him blush. Al was Kansan. After two months he found courage to take her skating. They drank cocoa and he told her that human beings were born to suffer. He took her to a steel-company Christmas party and told her that the intelligent were doomed to be tormented by the stupid. He was a good dancer and a good earner, however, and she kissed him in the elevator. Soon they were engaged and they chastely rode a night train to McCook, Nebraska, to visit his aged parents. His father kept a slave whom he was married to. — Jonathan Franzen

I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was. — Victor Mature

I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller skating, singing, and talking to girls."
"You left out stalking," I told him as he helped me out of the bed. "I can always tell when you're lurking around corners."
"You only asked for three. — Rick Yancey

Very good. It was perfect. — Veronik Mallet

When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick. — Jeffrey Deitch

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. — Andy Rooney

But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god. — Patrick Suskind

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating. — Kim Yuna

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at. — Kim Yuna

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You never have enough competition at any position, ... Several of the players listed at right wing have played center in the NHL, like Trevor Linden. Some can play both wings. I've been skating on a line with the Sedin twins. They are a lot more skilled than some people give them credit. Look at their point totals and they are right up there in their point-per-minute averages. My job will be to complement them and try to get our line to provide secondary scoring behind the big line of Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison. Those guys look good and I expect they'll be the top line in the NHL again. — Anson Carter

Everybody won't like everything you write. Some people won't like anything you write. Get over it. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at. — Maggie Grace

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

'Thrasher' magazine's Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven't set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it's this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal. — Ryan Sheckler

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. — Dorothy Hamill

My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch! — Margot Robbie

When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me. — Kim Yuna

My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career. — Patrick Chan

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. — James A. Garfield