Michelle Trachtenberg Quotes

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'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.

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

While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.

It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true.

I used to ice skate at parties when I was eight, but that was sort of the extent of roller skating, ice skating, that kind of sport.

'Dancing with the Stars' was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

I loved being at the rink every day and training.

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

Even when I wasn't on the ice, I was always on my rollerblades.

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

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

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

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'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

I started skating when I was six years old.

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off.

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 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.