Top 121 Skater Quotes & Sayings

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

I have always believed that I've been an amazing skater regardless of what the results say.

I want to be a full-package skater.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

I want to be a skater.

I started skating when I was 2 years old because of my older sister Natasha was a skater, and I wanted to be just like her!

Before I even wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a figure skater.

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that... that is so me.

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... He's legit.

I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to Sochi... I want to start anew, not as an Olympic medalist but just as yet another figure skater.

One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

It was really, really heartbreaking to not be named to the team in Sochi, but some things are just not meant to be. That experience changed me as a skater. I took a step back and decided that some things are not worth accepting. I wanted to be on another Olympic team. I took time to evolve myself as a person and as a skater.

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 dreamed of being a professional skater once. I wanted to be a Korean Olympic skater, but I wasn't good enough, so I quit.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps.

It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

All I care about is that people remember me as a good skater, as someone who was innovative.

I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

I have nothing against tricep kickbacks, but I'd rather have you do a skater's lunge with a kickback and get a lower body workout.

I think, as a skater, I started out really strongly, and as I have grown in the public eye, I have had my rough seasons that most people don't get as much attention for.

I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn't strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd!

'Thrasher' magazine's Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven't set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it's this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal.

Whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. Where I used to practice in New York City, there was a mirror so you could actually watch yourself skate. And nowadays my golf teacher will film me swinging so I can see what I am doing. Having looked first at myself and my own body for so long as one does as a dancer and a skater, it was so natural to do fashion.

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

I have always believed that I am an amazing skater regardless of what the results say, and I think that determination and confidence has kept me in the game so long.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

I was a competitive roller skater for 12 years.

When I decided to continue in the sport, I decided I would do whatever it takes to be the best figure skater I can be.

For me, the first thing I do when I know I have to do the fastest skater is check my edges and make sure there's no nicks or anything like that.

My oldest brother was two years older than me, and a really awesome skater.

I mean, Patrick Chan, you could make the argument he's the best skater that ever was.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.