Henry Sy 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.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.

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

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

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.

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.

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

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.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.

I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.

I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and fun and loved to make us sing and dance and paint. She was the coolest person in the world. I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.