Blatherwick Skating Quotes

When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating. ~ Michio Kaku

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. ~ Gracie Gold

I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights. ~ Clara Hughes

Growing up, you always dream of winning a gold medal. But coming into these Games, it wasn't something I was focused on. I'm just enjoying skating. This is the best season ever. I think that this year, my 3,000 meters has been stronger than the 1,500. The 1,500 has been anybody's race this year. When I was first, I still didn't know if that was enough. ~ Cindy Klassen

Did you hear Dr. Jenkins was caught roller-skating half-naked in the middle of the night on Prospect Road?" Don't act shocked. It'll just motivate her to stay and gossip longer. It's no big deal whatsoever that your doctor is a freak. Roger shrugged. "Nothing wrong with a little exercise." Maggie did a double take. "Without clothes?" "Smart man - less to wash. I hate doing laundry." Maggie blew out a desperate breath. "He was wearing his nurse's bra!" Note to self: find a new doctor. "You can never have too much support," said Roger. "The guy's got some serious man-boobs. ~ Rich Amooi

When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff. ~ Apolo Ohno

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic. ~ Johnny Weir

It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who doesn't know everything about skating. ~ Ashley Wagner

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting. ~ Tamara Tunie

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep. ~ Jostein Gaarder

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not. ~ Marlee Matlin

I never ever wanted to change my sport ... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it. ~ Johnny Weir

It's a hard process to navigate ... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college. ~ Margaret Spellings

I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller skating, singing, and talking to girls."
"You left out stalking," I told him as he helped me out of the bed. "I can always tell when you're lurking around corners."
"You only asked for three. ~ Rick Yancey

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin. ~ Tony Hawk

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting. ~ George Sanders

I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life. ~ Dorothy Hamill

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office. ~ John Cusack

No matter what the other fifty odd weeks of his life offered, here, at least for a few days, he was officially a very special person in an otherwise ordinary world. ~ Lisa Luciano

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. ~ Matt Taibbi

I headed downtown right away. It was still early in the evening, glittering with electric, with ice; and trembling in the factories, those nearly all windows, over the prairies that had returned over demolitions with winter grass pricking the snow and thrashed and frozen together into beards by the wind. The cold simmer of the lake also, blue; the steady skating of rails too, down to the dark. ~ Saul Bellow

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well. ~ Brett Hull

Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks. ~ T.I.

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints. ~ Patrick Chan

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things. ~ Matt Skiba

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. ~ Barry Sonnenfeld

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom. ~ Kristi Yamaguchi

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way. ~ Todd Bridges

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age." ~ Christian Hosoi

I had to ice my face the rest of the weekend and my bruised nose made it look like I got in a fight. Going back to class on Monday wasn't any better."Hey, Red, how's the nose doing?" John plopped down in the seat next to me like he didn't have a care in the world.I glared forward, willing myself not to look at him.
"You're the one who put it there, so if you don't mind I would like to focus on the lecture since finals are coming up."The girls in front of us glanced over their shoulders, looks of disgust on their faces.I smirked. "Don't get ahead of yourself, ladies. I fell ice skating, he's not beating me or getting me involved in
some weird sex act."That got them to turn back around. "Since when does sex involve bruises?What kind of stuff are you into,Red? ~ J. Lynn

I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away. ~ Patrick Kane

I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955. ~ Lindsay Fox

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like. ~ Charlie Kaufman

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

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it. ~ Kurt Browning

I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. ~ Jud Tylor

We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It's the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It's definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It's a great opportunity to have such an event. ~ Susan Ward

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing. ~ Evgeni Plushenko

We can't date. Maybe we could fuck occasionally. But that's it. Anything else is ridiculous."
A shiver ran through him as Baz's body brushed his, hands skating over his arms. "Let's be ridiculous. ~ Heidi Cullinan

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating. ~ Kim Yuna

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus. ~ Scott Hamilton

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