40+ Best Ice Skating Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Ice skating is the sport or activity of moving on ice, wearing ice skates (= boots with thin metal bars attached to the bottoms). Profoundly inspirational ice skating quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

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Famous Ice Skating Quotes

I can’t go ice skating. I have unnaturally brittle ankles. Amy Farrah Fowler

This is a sport where you talk about sequins, earrings, and plunging necklines—and you are talking about men.  Christine Brennan

It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. Franklin P. Jones

I wouldn’t be face-washing anyone in real life. I’d be skating to the bench real fast to get away. Patrick Kane

The problem with winter sports is that-follow me closely here-they generally take place in winter. Dave Barry

Figure skating is theatrical. It’s artistic. It’s elegant. It’s extremely athletic. And there’s a very specific audience for that. Johnny Weir

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton’s law of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton’s laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form. Michio Kaku

Icy pillars of serenity, spun from airy mist, entered my quiet vision in echoes of worlds unknown. Gina Marinello-Sweeney

People don’t understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating. Daniel Johns

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice. Alexei Yagudin

We don’t get any marks for effort like in ice-skating. Kevin Keegan

I’m an ice skater. I’m all about the glitter. Johnny Weir

If I can’t defrost this refrigerator pretty soon, I can rent it to Peggy Fleming to rehearse in. Cher

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful. Gracie Gold

It’s just skating, and you’re going to have a couple of mistakes. Even in practice, you’re not hitting 100%. Gracie Gold

Hearts shall dance once again; when canvas of ice is painted with the brush of skates. Shah Asad Rizvi

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it. Kurt Browning

In skating there’s always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that’s what I liked about it. Gracie Gold

Amazing Ice Skating Quotes

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies. Shah Asad Rizvi

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It’s fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. Michelle Trachtenberg

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in. Ashley Wagner

Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. And if you make any mistakes, you’re dead.  Scott Hamilton

I won’t quit skating until I am physically unable. Tony Hawk

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, wait til it gets warmer. Rodney Dangerfield

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well. Adelina Sotnikova

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

If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy! Dorothy Hamill

If you’re skating on thin ice, you might as well dance. Anita Shreve

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up. D. B. Sweeney

I remember John told me, “When you’re skating on thin ice, skate fast.” James Belushi

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don’t think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids–I’m just in touch with myself. It’s exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion. Tenley Albright

To me, skating should look effortless even when you’re doing the hardest of elements. Johnny Weir

In skating I can use all languages, for all the people. Yuzuru Hanyu

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul. Peggy Fleming

If you’re skating on thin ice, you might as well dance! Laurie Strongin

If you don’t know a lot about figure skating, it’s easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it’s so romantic and so theatrical. Dorothy Hamill

I think you learn how to fall well when you’re figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. Jud Tylor

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. George Bernard Shaw

I skate where the puck is going to be not where it was. Wayne Gretzky