#skate

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

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

I have a very close friendship with the skaters. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#friendship #i #skaters #very

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. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#concrete #fast #go #how #i

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#ask #doing #explanation #i #i always

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#i #into #listening #skateboarder #ted

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. ↗

— Bam Margera

#fall #getting #how #hurt #just

I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money. ↗

— Bam Margera

#contests #giving #i #me #money

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#blows #going #good #i #ice