Skating Quotes

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

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

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.

Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Skating is now retro and hip.

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

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

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

Well, I can't figure out God.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Skating is in my heart, not my head