A Quote by Kim Yuna

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.

Kim Yuna

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Figure Figure Skating Huge Increased Interest International Koreans Me Only Other Popularity Skating Tremendously Well

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Kim Yuna
South Korean - Athlete
Born: September 5, 1990

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.

Johnny Weir

Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation.

Brian Boitano

I grew up figure skating, and in figure skating there is only a handful of black people at the time figure skating with me.

Brandi Rhodes

I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.

Ashley Wagner

Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters, you have your video skaters, you have your skaters who don't like either of them, but they all are sponsored and get paid.

Christian Hosoi

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

Kristi Yamaguchi

The only reason skaters hang around this guy is because he's Lil Wayne, but they don't like him. I've talked to skaters; nobody likes Wayne as a skateboarder.

Hopsin

I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.

Scott Moir

Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.

Tony Hawk

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

David Mitchell

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Kim Yuna

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

Michelle Kwan

There's a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there.

Nathan Chen

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

Ashley Wagner

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

Kurt Browning

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

Scott Hamilton

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