#skater

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#celebrity #changed #dramatically #famous #gold

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances. ↗

— Dick Button

#form #giving #good #great #makes

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn. ↗

— Robin Cousins

#create #dedicated #everywhere #facilities #going

I have a very close friendship with the skaters. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#friendship #i #skaters #very

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#different #different kinds #i #kinds #like

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#although #different #different things #difficult #double

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#attention #attention span #care #forget #hot

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#crowd #dreams #end #even #every

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#costs #country #eastern #easy #even

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater. ↗

— Tonya Harding

#figure #i #never #skater #stereotypical