Dorothy Hamill Quotes

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 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's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

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 started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

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

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

Daisuke Takahashi has really good footwork.

I love ice-skating but I'm not very good at it.

We're always up for a bit of romance on ice.

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

You have to get better every year. You have to add tools to the toolbox every year.

You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.

Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing.

I enjoyed practices at college. That is where you really get down and dirty and really get some development and see what you have.

We record Dream Theater shows and I'll sit on the bus and listen to my playing - what worked, what didn't. A lot of times it's embarrassing and humbling, but that's what you have to do to get better.

I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.

I watched a lot of Alessandro Nesta videos, as he had similar characteristics, studied carefully and applied myself.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.