Connor McDavid Quotes

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 you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

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

Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

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

I usually just write down what I'm doing and how I felt. How I felt if I'm skating fast, compared to if I'm skating slow or if I'm tired. I can always go back and look as a reference and see what I was doing. It's pretty much my life on ice.

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

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.

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

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

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

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