Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Sonja Henie

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Norwegian athlete Sonja Henie.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European champion (1931–1936). Henie has won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies' figure skater. She is one of only two skaters to defend a ladies' singles Olympic title, the other being Katarina Witt, and her six European titles has only been matched by Witt.

Norwegian - Athlete | April 8, 1912 - October 12, 1969

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Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Sonja Henie

I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me.

Sonja Henie

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

Sonja Henie

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

Sonja Henie

The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.

Sonja Henie

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

Sonja Henie

it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.

Sonja Henie

If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.

Sonja Henie

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Sonja Henie

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