Quotes about Skate

I always had my dreams and aspirations of competing in the Olympics, but as a kid you just do it because you love to skate.

Ryan Shimabukuro

It's pretty exciting for me, because I don't skate this race very often.

Kristina Groves

For starters, it allowed me to find Wausau Insurance and Taco Bell. They allowed me to skate four more years. That was a huge way that it changed my life.

Casey Fitzrandolph

It's kind of unheard of. People don't really think people from Hawaii can skate, but we're getting better.

Asia Nakakura

Every time I skate bad, some famous person comes along. I'm sure they've been through that path (of disappointing performances).

Shawn Sawyer

That's awesome. Aside from being a really positive outlet for kids who are going to skate whether there's a park or not, it's a breeding ground. It helps our sport grow.

Tony Hawk

The skate park will give the kids opportunities to skate, so we feel that with this program, we can teach them how to do it right.

Dawna Bates

I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice, but I don't have much energy. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better and get a good skate in.

Jamie Allison

When we skated, we thought of it as our last (Canadians) and we skated it as our last. But it might not be. We don't know. But it was amazing to skate with that feeling. It was very emotional.

Patrice Lauzon

No matter who we play next, we have to be on our game. We have to skate well and eliminate critical mistakes. If we do those things, we have a chance to go a lot further.

Matt Mincone

What we're seeing now is more saturation in the market. When we started making skate apparel 15 years ago, this was a small market.

Ken Block

His assets are strength and speed. There's no doubt he can skate at this level. He's actually an above-average skater at this level. He just needs experience at this level.

Gm Scott Howson

I tried that double axel too cautiously. Feeling tired at the last, I thought I would fall if I jumped hard. In the free skate, I'll do two triple axels and perform like I did in the Grand Prix Final.

Mao Asada

We didn't play our best games on the road last time, and the main thing is we have to skate well. When we're skating, we're creating and making it tough on the opponent to create offense.

Todd White

You can't skate two lines against the Suns, so they came in and spelled our first two lines. They helped us take the body as much as we could to slow down the Suns.

Dave Pfeifer

I don't see how you can avoid the fact that the books are riddled with sadism, racism, sexism. In books, readers tend to skate over all these horrible ambiguities. The moment they're put on film, it's very difficult to duck them.

Peter Hunt

He said to me 'How come I haven't seen you in the classrooms or the hallways at the Junior High? I told him it was because I was still at the East School. He said to me 'Son, you can't be on this team if you're not at the Junior High.' But he'd seen me skate and the way I could play, and he told me I could be on the team as long as I didn't tell anyone I was still going to the East School.

Bill Seabury

If you get hurt, it's kind of your own fault. But it's the only way you can skate.

Michael Hendricks

All of the celebrities in the competition not only have the ability to skate, but the desire to excel and become great. What's really interesting is that even at the training level, a competition between the pairs is already developing.

Arthur Smith

A bunch of my friends know how to skate, and they're always talking about going out as a group. I don't know how to skate. I need to learn by (spring break). But I'm clumsy, so hopefully I'll learn in time. If I do, it'll be a fun week.

Michelle Lopez

Together we watched them skate hand in hand, and now his hand slipped from hers and we are left to wonder why, but we will never forget the beauty of Gordeeva & Grinkov.

Peggy Fleming

The base value for quads is way too low. It doesn't encourage people to take risks. It encourages people to skate conservatively and skate clean, and I don't think that's the direction skating should be going.

Timothy Goebel

Just look at what they've done by calling penalties for obstruction and just allowing the freedom to be able to skate. Look at what the style of play in the AJHL is right now - it's night and day (from the NHL). It's frustrating for players and it's frustrating for coaches. It's a rodeo out there, getting to the net.

Fran Gow

She's an amazing and tough competitor. It's always fun to watch her skate and to compete against her is just great.

Kristina Groves

Family is the foundation of everything. This is a family thing. I got my no-fear attitude from my brothers from back when we used to bounce on the trampoline or go to the skate park.

Hannah Teter

I contemplated during the race whether I should ease up and re-skate but I was skating so well, ... It's extremely rare to a get a faster time on a re-skate. It's really difficult to know how much the crossover problem affected my final time.

Jeremy Wotherspoon

This is the first Redfest ever that has been able to support a skate demonstration.

Andrew Murphy

It's great to be Canadian - anywhere you go, everybody loves you. But the purpose in me going abroad was to train and skate for Turkey.

Tugba Karademir

The main thing the Phoenix does is have an open-door afternoon program for teens to come and play music and do homework and skate and socialize, a place to be off the streets.

Jane Hamilton

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

Sarah Hughes

This year is about building, ... They're not judging nationals [the U.S. Olympic trials in January] on what we do at Skate America . . . My goal is to show up at nationals and skate two clean programs and end up on the team.

Tim Goebel

It was disappointing. It was a rough skate. The music felt twice as slow as it has been in practice.

Melissa Gregory

We've mentally prepared for whatever is going to happen, but I think we've done enough - if we skate our best - that we should be able to retain our placement.

Aaron Lowe

He has great wheels and can skate well. We look forward to him bringing a lot of heart and leadership to this team.

Lyle Killins

When you're fighting for the top three places, it's really hard to skate. Others were falling but we had a clean skate.

Roman Kostomarov

It was a nice way to finish my career. We just threw everything out there and skate as hard as we could. We knew it was our last game, so we just decided to go for it.

Josh Ricci

We're going to skate our best and represent our country the best we can. We're going to the opening ceremonies. We're going for the full experience because this is a once-in-a-lifetime deal for us.

Aaron Parchem

The way the game's played today, especially in the Olympic level on the big ice sheet, you need people that can skate well and handle the puck well. That's his forte.

Ron Mason

[Meissner] was so bloody excited. She was unbelievable. I've never seen her skate better. She was electric.

Ron Ludington

We skate well. We move well.

Niko Kapanen

It was so incredibly cool to see everybody skate so fast.

Allison Baver

Yeah, it's the same idea as I was doing before. But the game has changed a bit the last few years, too. Everyone has to be able to skate, play. A guy who doesn't have some skill can't play in the league anymore.

Ken Belanger

This year there's a different situation on this team. There are lots of jobs available. As a coaching staff, what we are looking for are players who can skate and pressure the puck. With the new rules against obstruction, we'll be looking for guys who can get there quickly and pressure the puck.

Jeff Perry

I won, so it was a championship skate. It wasn't perfect, but last year at Canadians I had one of my best skates and then I had a lackluster performance in the long at worlds. I feel better knowing there's still room for improvement.

Jeffrey Buttle

I think in 20 years we?re going to look back and think, wow, we got to play on Lambeau Field. Just the history of it ? you think of all the football players who played on this field. To be able to skate on it, it?s an honor.

Nate Guenin

It's kind of funny that we have a skate park and we can't even skate because they lock it up. It's kind of bull....

Matt Lane

It's much harder to watch than to play. It sucks not being able to skate and be on the ice.

Leland Irving

I'm just glad we were able to execute the way we did with a brand new program. To skate it clean first time out, we couldn't ask for more.

Aaron Lowe

It's more of a thinking game. In Juniors, it's more of just skate hard, run, bang and shoot the puck. Here it's a lot more thinking, a lot more positional play. I'm just trying to get that part of my game good, and when that happens, I'll be good to go.

Jason Lundmark

We tried to make a place for kids to ice skate and a place for their parents to watch.

Harold Johnson

All their apparatus is on the ice. I'll have to skate around it. . . . There will be some retakes.

Brian Boitano

I kind of get choked up when I see the kids look at the medals. Maybe that will provide them with a little spark in one kid to pursue his own Olympic dreams. Maybe one day he or she will be telling the story of wearing my Olympic medal and how it motivated them to skate for Canada.

Brian Orser

NHL players are amazing hockey players, and you watch and go, 'It doesn't look good. They don't skate very well.

Dan Jansen

Yeah, we haven't seen them in four years, and now they're back on top. We haven't seen them skate once in practice because we're on a totally different schedule, but I guess they didn't lose anything.

Patrice Lauzon

Up until the other day I couldn't handle the pain caused by pressure in the skate.

Matt Cooke

He'll pull me on the skate board.

Marcus Marcos

My focus is just to get the kids on the ice. Some play hockey on one end, and I let them free skate on the other end if they want to.

Gary Heide

I knew we could do it if we skate like we did in practice.

Ryan O'meara

I always knew, even in Salt Lake that I could skate with the best. When I started the race I was focused today. I did not hear the fans.

Marianne Timmer

It was better than what I did at Skate America and a personal best for me.

Alissa Czisny

To help insure the children's safety, we need the parents to make sure that the child has all his or her safety gear before they leave the home. No parent should permit a child to skate without any protective gear.

Barbara Tyler

I felt better than expected, but watching Henrik skate around out there, I'm pretty envious; I'd like to be able to move like that, ... He clearly was the best player on the ice.

Steve Yzerman

This season we have had six or seven international competitions and that is the first time I have had this error. In the free skate you need more energy and in the latter half we made mistakes and errors.

Zhang Hao

They're always robbing us. That's why I don't wear skate clothes very much.

Joe Silver

Since we did skate three lines and got production from three lines, it made everyone feel better. As a team, we are as strong as we have ever been.

Josh Blaisdell

It was very difficult for us to skate after the long trip from Canada to China.

Alexei Tikhonov

Others were falling. But we had a clean skate. It was a tremendous responsibility.

Roman Kostomarov

These kids, that's what they love to do -- skate.

Tim Krupar

Every day I pray for one of my teammates to win a medal. But I think there is more pressure on the officials and coaches than on me. The only thing I need to do is skate my best.

Fumie Suguri

I grew up seeing this creek every day and learning how to ice skate, swim, water ski, do everything on this creek. I want her to be able to do the same, but it just doesn't look like it did.

Brian White

We are preparing for every game to play our game. We have to be skating for three periods to be successful and when don't skate we are not a good team.

Bob Donovan

It was great for Skate Canada to do that for us. They went above and beyond what most federations would do.

Jeff Buttle

You can skate at any age.

Sally Murphy

It?s definitely a neat experience. I never had a chance to skate at this rink because they just opened it up last January. It?s good to get out there and skate on it. But just to come back to Boston and see the old coaches is a good experience and it brings back some good feelings.

Freddy Meyer

A lot of them try to intimidate me. They whisper in my ear as they skate by, 'Your mine.' I've learned to ignore it.

Allie Woods

We've been traveling back and forth to Milwaukee. We need to be able to skate fast on slower ice or at lower altitude. Is it a big factor? Of course it is. That's why we're spending time there.

Kip Carpenter

The rink is much smaller than standard Olympic size, so it's hard to skate perfectly. We've only had two practices at this rink before today.

Roman Kostomarov

It's like a charley horse in the back. It's better than it was. I couldn't skate right now, but maybe (today). It all depends on how quickly I heal.

Todd Fedoruk

It was very difficult to skate the program because I'm still not healthy. After the third minute I couldn't breathe. I was gulping for air, like a fish out of water.

Evgeni Plushenko

It helps a lot to skate at home.

Enrico Fabris