Top 97 Skates Quotes & Sayings

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

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

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

I'm not really good on skates. But dance shoes I can dance in!

I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.

I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

I wasn't a great skater and I needed my skates to be perfect - really tight around the ankles. But I couldn't break in new ones because my feet would hurt so much. I wore a size 9 shoe and a 6.5 skate - my foot was really crunched.

I've been on skates since age 5.

She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

I'm a lot smaller than most guys, so I have to make up with grittiness and show I can work the hardest, show I'm strong on my skates and show I can push some people around.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true.

When I was in the care system, I lived for skating and drawing. I lived on roller skates.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

People forget the skates are like knives. Those blades are constantly sharpened... that's why they sound the way they sound. They are blades.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

Being from Detroit, I often went to the roller skating rink. I can skate backwards, forwards, and even twirl on skates, LOL!

Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

I've been watching the growth of Auston Matthews, for instance. If he were playing 20 years ago, we'd be saying he's Mario Lemieux-like. He's 6-foot-5. He skates great. He's got unbelievable hands and a hockey IQ.

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

I remember my dad took my ice skates. One day I asked my mum: 'Where are my ice skates?' because I loved to skate in the winter. And she said through tears: 'Dad is selling them now... we don't have money for this week.'

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

I generally like white skates.

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

My two earliest memories - earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street.

The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!

I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.

Maybe I didn't get new skates, but I got used skates. I made it to the national championships in used skates that were custom-made for another girl. I still have those skates. Underneath the arch, there was a name crossed out and my dad had 'Michelle Kwan' written in. Granted, they were a little big, but it worked.

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.

I can remember stepping out of the car with my skates already tied, smelling the ocean breeze.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.