#skating

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it. ↗

— Vera Wang

#body #carried #dancing #design #how

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Vera Wang

#against #although #always #anyone #better

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. ↗

— Vera Wang

#aspects #been #choreography #could #designing

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#figure #figure skating #mixture #skating

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#competition #competitions #forget #go #i

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#compete #competition #enough #get #had

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#i #i can #i hope that #long #maintain

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#focus #goal #just #me #one thing

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#competition #forget #go #i #ice

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#anybody #because #big #could #fantasy