Ashley Wagner Quotes

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.

I started skating when I was six years old.

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

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

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

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

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

My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.

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.

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

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

I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.

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

In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it.

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

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

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

I really like figure skating.

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

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

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 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.