#skate

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

One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#career #could #five #having #i