Figure Skating Quotes

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule. ~ David Icke

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself. ~ Ashley Wagner

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. ~ Jamie Zawinski

What kind of respect do I get? ... Just because I'm a physical player, it's O.K. to come at me and do what you want? Hey, it's a hockey game. It's not figure skating. You know what? I can take a hit and I can give a hit. I don't care who it is. No one gets a free ride out there. I don't get a free ride, and no one gets a free ride from me. ~ Scott Stevens

The bus ride to the arena ... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while imagining myself on the ice. Visualization and imagery are very important in figure skating, or any sport for that matter. This is where you see yourself in your mind performing in front of an audience and judges. I also imagine how I am going to feel during the performance. During the bus ride, I pictured myself skating a perfect program. ~ Josee Chouinard

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else. ~ William Petersen

I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating. ~ Michelle Kwan

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. ~ Andy Rooney

Yeah, because off the ice the only language Stephanie speaks is fluent Bitch. ~ Jennifer Comeaux

I decided to host my show 'Kiss and Cry' hoping that people actually want to participate and feel more familiar with figure skating. When I see these people enjoying themselves, it's a great joy to me. Although some of them get hurt once in a while, they enjoy it a lot, and I hope the show makes the viewers want to give it a try. ~ Kim Yuna

Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation. ~ Brian Boitano

I've never been invited to do 'Stars on Ice' before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it's disappointing that I can't perform for my American fans ... all because I'm not 'family friendly' enough. ~ Johnny Weir

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

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. ~ Margaret Haddix

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. ~ Vera Wang

Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged. ~ Chris Jericho

Pain-soaked joints. Endless miles. Concessions and compromises. Soon, finally, everything would come down to a few irretrievable revolutions of a stopwatch. ~ Lisa Luciano

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

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again. ~ Michael McKean

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home. ~ Paul Theroux

Somewhere hell was freezing over and Satan was figure skating. ~ Lia Riley

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed. ~ Beth Henley

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes. ~ Michelle Kwan

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances. ~ Seth Lloyd

I'm excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating. ~ Julia Mancuso

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

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go. ~ George C. Wallace

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place. ~ Jennifer Aniston

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. ~ Joan Cusack

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve. ~ Johnny Weir

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. ~ Richard M. Nixon

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off. ~ Meryl Davis

We stared at each other, weighing the options, very seriously considering the years we had both put into figure skating, and the dreams and aspirations associated with all of that hard work - all of which suddenly seemed a little less significant. ~ Bethany Turner

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. ~ Scott Hamilton

The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time! ~ Susan Humphreys

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. ~ Kurt Loder

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights. ~ N.D. Wilson

I remember being little and wondering if I smoothed this line away would I be able to see inside you, like it was a door or some kind of opening to your insides. Dumb, huh?"
"Sweet," he said, softly. "Little girl sweet. Never dumb."
Her eyes traveled up to his and locked there.
"When I got older I wondered what it would be like to kiss it. ~ Peggy Jaeger

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart. ~ Scott Hamilton

Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks. ~ Dorothy Hamill

Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things ... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am. ~ Johnny Weir

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well. ~ Adelina Sotnikova

It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing. ~ Evgeni Plushenko

You, sir, have a lovely and talented son. You should be proud of him. You should be encouraging him. He clearly loves to skate, and he's bloody marvelous at it, particularly given his age. But beside the fact that you may be too ignorant and bloody-minded to see that, you're also a monster if this is the kind of thing you say to that child at home. There is nothing inherently queer about figure skating, but even if there were, it's what Christian wants to do. And if he does happen to be gay, that's not a choice. It's not a decision you can influence. It either is or it isn't, and to try to turn that into something ugly, into something that might make that kind, clever young man turn to self-loathing, puts you among the most despicable creatures I've ever had the misfortune to meet. You don't deserve that boy. And he certainly deserves better than you. ~ Samantha Wayland

Michelle Kwan is an incredible artist, she wears her heart on her sleeve when she performs. She has grown so much from every influence in her career, and she has made herself the biggest star there ever will be in figure skating. She's down to Earth, friendly and always positive. Nobody will ever match her longevity or her ability to be such a strong competitor. ~ Johnny Weir

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs. ~ Johnny Weir

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying. ~ Aleks Paunovic

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

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport. ~ Patrick Chan

I think skating helped me find myself. ~ Peggy Fleming

Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions. ~ Adelina Sotnikova

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned. ~ Debi Thomas

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing ... everything else is just figure skating. ~ Scotty Bowman

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

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. ~ Johnny Weir

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all! ~ Ben Stiller

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut. ~ Ann Coulter

She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings. ~ Frank Carroll

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. ~ Scott Hamilton

I believe in myself and in Saint Therese. ~ Tara Lipinski

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

I'm higher than I expected. ~ Veronik Mallet

There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan. ~ Jen Kirkman

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit. ~ Johnny Weir

You always learn from your mistakes. ~ Elvis Stojko

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

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well. ~ Kim Yuna

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

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating. ~ Julie Benz

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. ~ Johnny Weir

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end. ~ Debi Thomas

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

He was her creation. From the moment they met when he wobbled onto the ice at the age of ten and refused to leave until he had learned his first jump, they could see into each others souls. Now when it counted most, there was a wall between them. ~ Lisa Luciano

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on. ~ Dorothy Hamill

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

I have to do everything tomorrow first. ~ Veronik Mallet

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure. ~ Isaac Mizrahi

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ~ Samuel Richardson

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical. ~ Dorothy Hamill

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ~ Seamus Heaney

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help. ~ Alice Hoffman

The result that Noether obtained was stunning. She showed that to every continuous symmetry of the laws of physics there corresponds a conservation law and vice versa. In particular, the familiar symmetry of the laws under translations corresponds to conservation of momentum, the symmetry with respect to the passing of time (the fact that the laws do not change with time) gives us conservation of energy, and the symmetry under rotations produces conservation of angular momentum. Angular momentum is a quantity characterizing the amount of rotation an object or a system possesses (for a pointlike object it is the product of the distance from the axis of rotation and the momentum). A common manifestation of conservation of angular momentum can be seen in figure skating-when the ice skater pulls her hands inward she spins much faster. ~ Mario Livio

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

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them. ~ Johnny Weir

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. ~ Brad Alan Lewis

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater. ~ Daniela Bobadilla

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop. ~ Alaine Chartrand

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. ~ Scott Hamilton

Great athletes practice, train, study, and develop. So do great learners. As students empowering ourselves with knowledge, what can we learn from Olympic-caliber athletes about success, and how to achieve it?
1.Preparation = Success!
"If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail." - Mark Spitz, Gold Medalist, Swimming
2.Learning is lifelong
"Never put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, Gold Medalist, Swimming
3.Failure is opportunity
"One shouldn't be afraid to lose" - Oksana Baiul, Gold Medalist, Figure Skating
4.The only person who can stop you is yourself
"This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows." - Olga Korbut, Gold Medalist, Gymnastics
5.Learning is fun!
"If you're not having fun, then what the hell are you doing?" - Allison Jones, six-time Paralympian
6.You have to be in it to win it
"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle." - Sanya Richards-Ross, Gold Medalist, Track & Field
There are always new skills to learn, new challenges to overcome, new ways to succeed. The only guarantee of failure is if you don't get started in the first place. ~ Udacity

Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself! ~ Will Young

...Miss Seeley came in.... She was a little older, a little thinner. Her tailored pinstriped suit emphasized the boniness of her figure. But she still wore hopeful white ruffles at her wrists and throat. ~ Ross Macdonald

The small smiles everybody wanted to try to figure out – they meant nothing, really. She wasn't so good at talking and the smiles made up for it. They filled the spaces in which she ought to have answers for things with something that gave people more questions. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings. ~ Ben Mendelsohn

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home. ~ Alexandra Robbins

The figure stopped to cough long and hard, making a noise like a wall being hit repeatedly with a bag of rocks. Moist saw that it had a beard of the short bristled type that suggested that its owner had been interrupted halfway through eating a hedgehog. ~ Terry Pratchett

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me. ~ Dolph Lundgren

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about. ~ Michel Gondry

As it happens, the higher the hygiene standards in a country, the higher that nation's incidence of allergies and autoimmune diseases. The more sterile a household is, the more its members will suffer from allergies and autoimmune diseases. Thirty years ago, about one person in ten had an allergy; today, that figure is one in three. ~ Giulia Enders

If only he could take her, ease this endless ache ... but having lain with her once, he might want her even more afterward. In mathematics, one could take a finite figure and divide its content infinitely, with the result that even though the content was unchanged, the magnitude of its bounds went on forever. Potential infinity. It was the first time Cam had ever comprehended the concept in the form of a woman. ~ Lisa Kleypas

My own preference, as a reader, for this sort of book, is to experience the closest possible equivalent to culture shock. I want to go to new, strange places, feel lost, and then (probably with quite a few subtle nudges on the author's part) gradually figure out where I am and what the heck's going on. As a reader, I enjoy few things more. From feedback, I know that I'm not alone in that, but also that some readers find it too demanding. But it's impossible to take care of both sides of that particular aisle at once. If you make it through the book, though, then go back and reread the beginning, you may find that you actually enjoy it this time, because everything's as coherent as I was able to make it, and you already know where you are. ~ William Gibson