Skate Quotes

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. (George Bernard Shaw)
We all live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is. View quote
Wayne Gretzky
If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first. View quote
Philip Larkin
I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game. View quote
Bobby Hull
The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true-although it sounds good!-but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me. View quote
Bobby Hull
That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. (Kenny Baker)
A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave. View quote
Kelly Slater
I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight. View quote
Mackenzie Foy
It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
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. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape. View quote
Oksana Baiul
I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. View quote
Oksana Baiul
Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things. View quote
Rodney Mullen
As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate. View quote
Steve Yzerman
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate. View quote
Sarah Hughes
It's coming on Christmas, They're cutting down trees. They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace. I wish I had a river I could skate away on. (Joni Mitchell)
I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably. View quote
Shaun White
He's getting wrapped up before the game and iced down after it. And you see that and you might have an injury, but you are like, 'Well, if Ovie can go out there and skate as hard as he does, I can go out there.' That rubs off on guys a lot, too. View quote
Alexander Ovechkin
The results are something I can't control, so I can't say 'damnit, I didn't place in the top three today.' I can't control any of that. I just skate. And my goal was to show my heart, to take them on a journey with me so they can feel me. View quote
Johnny Weir
If he doesn't want to skate to music that's pretty and wear a pretty costume, then go rollerblade or skateboard or do one of those extreme sports. View quote
Johnny Weir