But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
Scott Hamilton
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I definitely tried to skateboard in middle school, and being from San Diego, surf and skate culture is a big, prevalent thing. But I was not that good - I was kind of a chubby kid and didn't totally master skating.
Kyle Mooney
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I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.
Kim Yuna
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I saw the older kids entering the rink carrying hockey sticks and bags, and I was fascinated by the equipment. Once I started skating faster, I was attracted to the speed and dynamics of hockey. I never looked back!
Hilary Knight
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I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.
Eric Heiden
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I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.
Sarah Hughes
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In the '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable.
Hasso Plattner
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
T. V. Carpio
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I stopped amateur skating competitively when I was 15.
Tara Lipinski
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I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.
Patrick Chan
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When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.
Nathan Chen
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Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that's what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.
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My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
Nancy Kerrigan
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When I broke my leg, I never thought I'd ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.
Kaetlyn Osmond
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Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.
John Robinson
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In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.
Tony Hawk
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When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
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My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.
Mirai Nagasu
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I never ever wanted to change my sport... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.
Johnny Weir
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In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
Dorothy Hamill
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I begged my mom to let me start skating.
Debi Thomas
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Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
Bonnie Blair
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It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
Preston Sturges
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When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'
Shaun White
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