Skates Quotations

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

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

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.

Next time you see a kid skating, before you stereotypically bite his head off. Try to remember that the child skates for a reason. He like the challenge and is rewarded with his own brand of self-esteem every time his wheels roll full circle.

New skates are so much lighter for comfort and speed, and guys are shooting the puck so much harder. Sometimes something has to give.

She just has to skate to her potential. If she skates to her potential, she will win, everybody knows that. However ...

She's laid back, but we all know she can step up when she wants to. In the big competitions, she always skates well. She WILL skate well at these Olympics.

I can actually remember my first steps on the ice. I came this way. I had my rental skates on.

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

We talk about the young players who dominate the game now, and he's certainly one of them. He has good hockey sense, he skates real well. He's a power forward who's tough to contain.

He was a fine referee, but what I am going to remember most is that he was a great human being. He did a tremendous job on the ice, but what he did after he hung up his skates was amazing. He never refused to help an organization. And then there was the many thousands of speeches he made, not only in Montreal and in Quebec, but all across Canada.

He has hit everything in sight in camp, he's got a great shot and he skates strong.

He has just smoothed it out. Fifteen, 20 years ago, not as many people were able to improve their skating as much as now. It might be a combination of the players being in top condition, that they have more access to skating instructors. Maybe the modern skates allow you to improve your skating.

He has been consistently good. He?s young (25), he skates well, he moves the puck, he makes good decisions. Does he have a future here? Big time. Big time.

He was very strong on his skates and showed us he has the ability to make the first pass, which is extremely important given the way our game is going to be played now.

He's going to practice with my backup skates and equipment.

He's earned all the ice time he is getting. Guillaume has good size and skates well. He's also a gifted hockey player who brings a lot of intangibles to the game. If there is a fault, it's that he tries too hard. That's only because he wants to be the one who makes the difference every game.

He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.

He's a real mobile, very poised with the puck and defends well. For a 20-year-old, he's got a man's body and he skates so well and moves laterally. It's just a matter of getting used to the pace of the game. We hope over time that he develops a bit more of an offensive edge to his game, but right now we don't put a lot of pressure on him to do that. He's going to play, it's just a question of how good he'll be. Is he going to be an All-Star or not?

I feel good walking around. I put the skates on (yesterday) morning, but I can't push off yet. It's still really sore when I try to skate. I can't stride yet. The bone is still really sensitive. Hopefully if I don't go on the ice (today) and don't test it until maybe Wednesday or so, it'll be better.

I remember wanting ice skates for some reason and got ice skates from the Gold Bond Stamps.

Lauren has had a great year. Her decision making is so good and she skates so well.

I won, so it was a championship skate. It wasn't perfect, but last year at Canadians I had one of my best skates and then I had a lackluster performance in the long at worlds. I feel better knowing there's still room for improvement.

I still put on the skates once in a while, but I do not look back. I had a great career. I hope to have a great career in boxing, too. I am not bitter at the way some people may look at me. Sure, I am trying to turn my image around and be a lady. But you can be a lady, and an athlete, too.

I think he will be strong defensively with an offensive upside, but he needs to work on his shot and get a stronger to handle the guys up there, but he skates and passes well. The NHL game is a more controlled game than here and I think he will suit that kind of game very well.

We need a few skates to get the virgin layer off.

Unfortunately, when you get to the on-ice part, you get a lot of accidents because people can't skate all that well. We've had some broken bones and some injuries there, because a lot of these people have never been on skates before.

We've been having some weekend public skates with anywhere from 300 to 400 skaters per session. It's pretty crowded.

When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

We're a family. When you lose a guy like that it's like losing people in your family. He was always there. He was the first one to take the blame and held himself responsible. As a player, it's not something you like to see. The coach doesn't put on his skates and go out and play. There's only so much he can do. I have a lot of respect for him.

You always see Mark as a hockey player. It's going to be odd to see him without the skates on. To me, Mark looks more like a GM, he always has this solid look. I don't see Mark throwing bottles and sticks on the ice.

We played alright five-on-five. But, against a team that skates as well and passes as well as they do, you can't be skating a man down.

Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.

This whole season we really had our sights set on the world championships because we didn't think we would be able to be here. They were our main goal, and we're looking forward to improving our skates and moving up the ranks even further.

This whole thing about paying your dues in skating and finally one day you're going to get rewarded for it, I don't believe in this. It doesn't matter who you are, or wherever you're from, you should have a fair chance. If a newcomer skates the best that night they should win. This system is veering toward that and it's allowing it to happen.

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours...

The one thing you saw today was a flow, it was up-and-down. When you play that way at that speed and that tempo, things are going to happen. They got the game-winner off one of our guys' skates but that's a credit to them because they got the puck to that point. Some days the bounces go your way and some days they don't.

When we got to Washington that day and discovered people coming in trucks and buses and on planes, in cars, even some came on bicycles and skates -- we were overwhelmed by that response,

Bob Johnson tried everything to get him to play with consistency. The trick was to try something different to keep him interested. One time, Nilsson even was sharpening his own skates and it worked for a while,

I've never had surgery before, but I'm just happy I can get back and continue the rest of the season. Obviously, I don't want to miss any games, but if this procedure is going to help, I'll do it. I'll just be so excited the next time I get to put my skates on.

I've never laced up a pair of ice skates in my life. But I didn't fall as much as I thought I would.

You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and we used to have all sorts of things. We used to have roller skates for making train noises over rails and I remember once trying to effect the noise of someone's head being chopped off. I used a cabbage for that, it was very effective.

The most important part of your trade is your skates, ... If you're skates don't feel good then you're in absolute trouble.

Provided he skates up to his potential and doesn't get sick or anything like that, I think he's got a fairly good chance. My biggest concern is that he will get distracted by it all. Physically, no one can beat him at 1,500, 5,000 or 10,000. He's just got to be really focused on what's going on and not get all wrapped up in the potential distractions.

No, we both work, too. Right here. I drive the Zamboni, work the snack bar, in admissions and sharpen skates when I'm not on the ice.

They've both come in and helped. Ned is a good shooter and generates offense. Jeff skates well and has helped our defense.

There's probably a reason behind it somewhere. Whether it's the ice or whatever, we don't know. We do know the ice is pretty bad at Glendale right now and it's tough to move around out there. You get on the ice and your skates sink right in. Even I, over the last couple of practices, have noticed my groins are working a little bit harder than they had been at the beginning of camp.

This time we knew what we were going there for and what to expect. We just went and had some great skates and had some fun and it worked out.

I'm pleased to have been chosen by Coach G. and the team. I know they'll do me proud, ... If not, I'm going to invite them to leave Tucson and come to one of my Las Vegas shows, and then make them sit outside in the desert and let them watch their skates melt.

I love this pressure. It is not interesting when nobody skates well. I like it when the atmosphere is really competitive like tonight.

I've had chances, but I haven't been able to bury them. I had a chance last night, but the puck went through some skates and by the time I had control of it, I was in too close. But I think it's a matter of scoring a couple and then they'll start coming.

Skates and sticks are the most important thing. You take new skates, it takes 10 days to two weeks to break them in. It would be tough.

I'm not saying they were highlight-reel goals. He skates pretty well for his size. You stick that in front of the net and you can knock in a few.

I try to remind the people it's the only sport played with two artificial limbs. You have a stick in your hands and skates on your feet. ... This is kind of unique because it would be a lot easier to stick-handle if you were on a basketball court with your runners on. Now you're on the ice with skates and it kind of adds to the complexity of how hard it is.

I know I had someone hit me on that play. Someone knocked me off balance that much I can tell you. I guess I'll see the replay later but I think as a goalie you've got to expect that when an opponent skates through the crease, the referee has to spot it and least stop the play or call a penalty for interference.

I know he was nervous a little bit, but he played really well, ... He had some breakaways and fought along the boards. He made some good plays and got to the net. He's good on his skates and strong.

In the relay, what matters most is which team skates more consistently.

When it comes down to competition, its not always about the best skater, its about who skates the best in that competition.

Chad always had his own style. When he first went out to a clinic at the Olympic Training Center (in Colorado Springs), they sent home a report card saying 'Bad technique. Skates fast.' That's kind of funny. Three or four years later, everybody was trying to copy it.

He's predictable in a good way. He doesn't make crazy, high-risk plays. He follows the system and is responsible in knowing what he has to do. And he has good speed, is strong on his skates and finishes his hits when they're available. He does all the little things well, so he's earning more and more ice time by proving himself.

It was my first (Olympics). I was real excited about that. I skated real well the year before, but then the clap skates came out, so, I was anything but relaxed, because I knew I was a long shot, at best. Yet, a lot of people were expecting great things out of me, because they read about the season before.

The guy's probably never put a pair of skates on in his life. He's probably a disgruntled athlete.

A lot of mannerisms remind me of his dad, kind of the way he skates and the fact he's a real smart player. He really thinks the game well.

The first period and a half, we looked like we never put skates on before. The next period and a half, we just turned it on. From here on, we need to figure out how to settle down the first period and a half and play good hockey so we can play three good periods.

You count on the training staff to get you ready, to do what they have to do to help you be mobile out there. It's always, 'If I can get my skates on, if I can go on the ice and play, I should play.' And you get out there, and you forget about things.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

It was an added bonus having Giacomo join the team this year. He just kind of fell into my lap. We didn't know what we were getting, but he skates very fluently and low, a tough thing for someone so tall. We are working with him on playing both ends of the rink. He has some room to grow defensively, coming back and getting the puck.

I don't think he ever took his skates off whether he was at the rink, at home or outside.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.