#skate

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

This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating. ↗

— Ryan Sheckler

#city #energy #every #feeling #grounds

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#i #keep #myself #now #shape

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#different #different kinds #i #kinds #like

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#although #different #different things #difficult #double

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding. ↗

— Travis Barker

#breaking #had #half #i #kept