Elvis Stojko Quotes

I've been skating since I was 10 years old.

In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it.

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.

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.

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.

I started skating when I was six years old.

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

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

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.

I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.

You've got to focus on getting better at one thing at a time, every single drill, every single snap.

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.

I was about five or six when I went to the little foundation camps. I got into the academy when I was nine, and I've gone through every age group since and into the first team.

That's something I'm actually very interested in doing, helping young skaters.

You always want to put time and thought into how guys can improve during the offseason.

My game has been improving as I've been working. Little things are getting better. Which, I would hope so - it's all I do every day.

Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing.