Gracie Gold Quotes

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

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

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

I want to be a full-package skater.

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

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

I started skating when I was six years old.

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

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

I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.

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

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.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

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

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.