Gracie Gold Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 started skating when I was six years old.

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 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.

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 want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

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.

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

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

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.

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.

Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.

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

I've been skating since I was 10 years old.

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.