Skate Quotes
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It's coming on Christmas, They're cutting down trees. They're putting up reindeer, And singing songs of joy and peace. I wish I had a river I could skate away on
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More Skate Quotes
I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.
bobby hull— Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Bobby Hull," Legends of Hockey.net (2001-12-11)
— Hull comments on his belief that the most fundamental aspect of ice hockey is skating.
The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true—although it sounds good!—but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.
bobby hull— Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Bobby Hull," Legends of Hockey.net (2001-12-11)
If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.
philip larkin— Letter to J.B.Sutton 30 October 1949
He's getting wrapped up before the game and iced down after it. And you see that and you might have an injury, but you are like, 'Well, if Ovie can go out there and skate as hard as he does, I can go out there.' That rubs off on guys a lot, too.
alexander ovechkin— Sami Lepisto, interview in Harlan Goode (October 5, 2008) "The Capitals' star attraction: Ovechkin charms fans with energy, humbleness", The Washington Times, News World Communications. p. M08.
