Skating Community Quotes

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

I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.

No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

We're so excited to skate in a Canadian market.

L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.

In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.

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

It's nice to socialize with some normal students, and kind of separate from my skating life with academics.

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

I grew up figure skating, and in figure skating there is only a handful of black people at the time figure skating with me.

I have so much to give to skating in Canada.

I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

The skating world is a very small world.

We need to remind people how fun skating is, how quirky skating is. If we went on TV and overlooked the cold, hard truths and the quirkiness, I don't think that's bringing anything to the fans.

That's something I'm actually very interested in doing, helping young skaters.

As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

Skating has given me so many opportunities.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

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

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

I used to roller skate a lot in my youth on Taft Avenue, Manila. That is the reason there is always a skating area in all my SM malls. I want more people to share my love for skating.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.