#kat

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#best #best friend #called #figure #figure skating

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#certainly #challenges #cycle #episode #faced

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances. ↗

— Dick Button

#form #giving #good #great #makes

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn. ↗

— Robin Cousins

#create #dedicated #everywhere #facilities #going

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had. ↗

— Robin Cousins

#dance #deal #figure #figure skating #form

Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you. ↗

— Robin Cousins

#around #asking #bit #competing #does

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#heart #i #into #pour #skating

The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing. ↗

— Mark Foley

#almost #coast #down #following #gas

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ↗

— Dawn French

#been #fabulous #had #i #kate

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#few #growing #growing up #i #independent