Skating Technique Quotes

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

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

I think doing a quint is very, very difficult.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

Once I landed the triple Salchow, I put it in the program. First landed triple toe, straight into the program. That's what I did with my quad suite.

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

I aim to skate as clean as possible.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.

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

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

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

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

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.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.

I want to be a full-package skater.

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.