#skating

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#advice #anything #athlete #coaches #dictate

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#boards #concept #days #had #i

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#backwards #direction #going #group #guess

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#hearts #i #just #part #people

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#competitive #figure #figure skating #great #having

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#center #fact #figure #figure skating #i

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#happened #i #just #know #never

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#accomplish #adversity #been #come #ever

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#figure #figure skating #half #judges #opinion

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#baseball #because #circles #could #guys