Quotes & Sayings About Speed Skating

When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. — Brittany Bowe

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating. — Bonnie Blair

If you want to Be The Best...
You have to Beat The Best!
In order to Beat The Best...
You must Beat Yourself!
Become A Champion Today. — Julian Wood

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. — Dorothy Hamill

I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears. — Brian Boitano

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. — Apolo Ohno

As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it. — Shani Davis

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life. — Apolo Ohno

Hockey players can also brace pretty hard against the ice. A player skating at full speed can stop in the space of a few meters, which means the force they're exerting on the ice is pretty substantial. (It also suggests that if you started to slowly rotate a hockey rink, it could tilt up to 50 degrees before the players would all slide to one end. Clearly, experiments are needed to confirm this.) — Randall Munroe

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating. — Brittany Bowe