Shani Davis Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.

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

I loved rollerskating when I was younger.

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

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

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

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

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 grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

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 started skating when I was six years old.

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

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.

We're so excited to skate in a Canadian market.

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 want to be a full-package skater.