#skate

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#i #just #left #locker #locker room

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#figure #hockey #hockey players #key players #perceptions

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#else #i #marks #skate #someone

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#british #british columbia #columbia #going #i

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#going #i #puck #skate #where

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#eyes #hard #i #league #mind

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#help #how #i #learn #left

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#bikes #candy #candy store #home #like

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#i #know #sissy #skater #want

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#always #based #because #city #edge