Wollman Skating Quotes

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp. ~ Jeffrey Deitch

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

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time. ~ Carolina Kostner

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

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

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

A little boy was tugging on his pant leg.
'Teacher, I have to pee.'
Avila woke from his skating dreams and looked around, pointed to some trees by the shore that grew out over the water; the bare network of branches fell like a shielding curtain toward the ice.
'You can pee there.'
The boy squinted at the trees.
'On the ice?'
'Yes? What is wrong with that? Makes new ice. Yellow. ~ John Ajvide Lindqvist

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

Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future. ~ Tony Hawk

There is a complexity to life that I often overlook. There is a depth of thinking, there is a richness. I am skating on the surface. ~ Augusten Burroughs

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

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

I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears. ~ Brian Boitano

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

You said that life's just like skating; I just need to kick forward and take a chance, push off the ground and follow through. And when everything works out, I'll coast. ~ Jay McLean

It's just skating, and you're going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you're not hitting 100%. ~ Gracie Gold

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

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

I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl. ~ Vera Wang

It is probably easier to land a quadruple jump in ice-skating than to get my five children to depart our home in a timely manner. Everyone knows leaving anywhere with a large group is extremely difficult. I don't know how Moses did it. ~ Jim Gaffigan

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. ~ Dorothy Hamill

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating. ~ Kim Yuna

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

Hell's put in a skating rink," Shane said. "This is actually edible, Eve. ~ Rachel Caine

I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration comes in. It's not the place we want to be, but it's the place our society requires that we be. There is no fulfillment there. So we become numbed, we become drugged, we become less than we are. And I think that we know that. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

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

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements. ~ Brian Boitano

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal. ~ Debi Thomas

You always learn from your mistakes. ~ Elvis Stojko

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely. ~ Preston Sturges

Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen. ~ John Robinson

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs. ~ Tonya Harding

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

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. ~ George Bernard Shaw