Top 267 Skate Quotes & Sayings

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.

We're so excited to skate in a Canadian market.

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

I couldn't skate, I couldn't shoot, and I wasn't very intelligent. But I was spectacular

Kids at skate parks will step up and challenge me to a game of Skate, but I'm over that, I really don't care. I'm all about participating, and I'm all about being a part of this scene, but there's certain vibes I just don't get along with.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

I still recreationally skate at the roller rink with all the children.

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours.

I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then - bam! - he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad.

That's pretty much all I do - skate, surf, and jam.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

I literally used to skate every single day. Like, there was not a day I didn't skate.

I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

You never know when you're gonna come across a sick skate spot, or a skate park you wanna stop at, so as long as I'm not injured, I'm always gonna have my board on me, and my skate shoes, and whatever I need to go out there and get a little session in.

I've always had a fascination with skate culture.

One of my favorite lyrics is 'Clams on the half-shell and roller skate, roller skate.' So they can be just really party-inspiring lyrics or just something brilliant like 'Tutti Frutti.'

I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

I love going to football matches, the skate park, and music festivals.

I love skateboarding because it's the funnest thing on earth. And that goes for, not only if you're one of us about to skate the Olympics or just a kid out there skating your skate park, just having fun. It's the freedom, the love. It brings us all together and the nonstop challenge and the progression.

On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.

All the coverage of skateboarding sucks. They couldn't care less when it comes to how skateboarding is portrayed. All I can do is portray it the right way when it comes to me. So skateboarders can look at what I'm doing and say, "Yeah, the only person doing it the right way is him." That's why Street Dreams was so important in being 100% true to skate culture. That's why the Wild Grinders are important in showing the different styles of street skating. That's why I get involved in building the skate parks. All I can do is show skateboarding the right way.

She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains

Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam.

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.'s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

I love to roller skate.

I wish I could skate every single day.

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

I aim to skate as clean as possible.

My goal, my dream has already come true. Every kid's dream is to become a pro skater, you know? Not only have I become a pro skater, but to me personally, I ride for the best sponsors there are. That's even more than I ever expected... I didn't skate to please everyone else. I started skating because I love to skate. you gotta watch out because there will come a point where you'll forget that.

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

All our old record reviews were like, 'Oh, these skate punk kids, blah, blah, blah.' And I don't skate, and we're not skate punks.

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

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

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.