Skating Quotes - Page 5

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

He's skating like he's 36 again.

That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure

You always learn from your mistakes.

In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

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.

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

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

I'm higher than I expected.

I have to do everything tomorrow first.

Very good. It was perfect.

I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration comes in. It's not the place we want to be, but it's the place our society requires that we be. There is no fulfillment there. So we become numbed, we become drugged, we become less than we are. And I think that we know that.

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.