Shani Davis Quotes

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

Skating has given me so many opportunities.

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

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

I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.

During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public.

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.

I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

I started skating when I was six years old.

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

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

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.

I have so much to give to skating in Canada.

In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.

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