Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.
I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.
I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
I'm excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating.
I've been skating since I was 10 years old.
Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.
Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.
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.
Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing.
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.
Skating is a very beautiful sport, and I love watching new programs.
I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.
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 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.
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.
I want to be a full-package skater.
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.
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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 loved rollerskating when I was younger.
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.
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.
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 started skating when I was six years old.
