Skating Lessons Quotes

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

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.

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.

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

I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

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 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.

During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public.

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.

Before you get to the strip club, you've got to go through the skating rinks.

I have so much to give to skating in Canada.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My two earliest memories - earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.

Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me up in order to get me ready for skating before school.

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.

Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family.

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

I started skating when I was six years old.

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

Skating has given me so many opportunities.