50 Ice Skating Quotes for Gliding Through Life

By Norbert Juma

Master quote curator and editor on a mission to inspire

Published July 4, 2023

Mentally practice your axel jump and triple salchow while you read these fun ice skating quotes!

Ice skating is the recreation or sport of gliding across an ice surface on blades fixed to the bottoms of shoes (skates).

It is an engaging and thrilling sport involving balance, attentiveness, and precision.

Ice skating, as a professional sport, is known as figure skating and is simply enchanting.

Origins of Ice Skating

The sport of Ice skating can be traced back to ancient civilizations.

Historical evidence unfolds that ice skating emerged nearly 4,000 years ago in the area currently known as Finland.

Initially, it was a pastime game, eventually becoming a globally recognized sport.

Essential Techniques

By following the basic techniques, you can master the art of ice skating.

Listed below are a few of these techniques:

Find Your Balance

To achieve a perfect balance, it is necessary to understand the critical principles of stability on the ice.

These principles require body alignment, edge utilization, and weight distribution.

Proper Footwork

Try to learn the intricate footwork patterns.

This enables skaters to move seamlessly across the ice, perform elegant dance steps, and execute turns.

Jumping

Jumping is a difficult yet the most impressive part of any ice skating presentation.

If you want to explore the thrilling world of jumps, it is essential to learn some basics.

The two-footed jump is a bit complex, which beginners should avoid unless they are experienced enough to practice this move.

Mesmerizing Spins

It needs practice and patience to unravel the true secrets behind the art of spinning.

You must find a perfect balance point and stay upright while spinning on ice.

Also, make good use of the tips of your skating shoes.

Mental and Physical Benefits

Discussed below are some of the most important physical and mental advantages of ice skating:

It allows you to learn how to enhance body and mind coordination
Like any other physical game, skating also boosts mental well-being
Ice skating helps build endurance and strength through balance and intricate movements
Skating relies on the art of creating a perfect balance, which enables you to keep your body perfectly aligned and balanced

Top 10 Ice Skating Quotes

Here is the list of our curated top 10 quotes related to ice skating.

1. “I tried ice skating and wasn’t very good at it.” — Anton Yelchin

2. “We don’t get any marks for effort like in ice skating.” — Kevin Keegan

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

4. “A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.” — Rex Stout

5. “In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “And I’m not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.” — Julie Benz

7. “When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.” — Katarina Witt

8. “I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.” — Kenny Baker

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

10. “You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous – the ice of life is slippery.” — George Bernard Shaw

Ice Skating Quotes on the Joy and Challenges of Ice Skating

Glide through life’s highs and lows on icy paths of joy and perseverance with these quotes.

11. “I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you.” — Johnny Weir

12. “I started out Ice skating with Holiday on Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.” — Kenny Baker

13. “I asked my old man if I could go ice skating on the lake. He told me, “Wait til it gets warmer.” — Rodney Dangerfield

14. “Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition, and tennis is going to be something I’m probably not very good at.” — Maggie Grace

15. “Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding and swimming in the summer.” — Jackie Evancho

16. “My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.” — Debi Thomas

17. “What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating – all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.” — Michelle Kwan

18. “I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days, you couldn’t see the judges.” — Dorothy Hamill

19. “I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to dinner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.” — Laurie Halse Anderson

20. “The first year I started hockey, I didn’t know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backward in figure eight. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.” — Shawn Mendes

Ice Skating Quotes About Life

Below are literal and figurative quotes about ice skating in life.

24. “Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work.” — Michelle Trachtenberg

23. “Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice.” — Zygmunt Bauman

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

22. “Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country’s energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.” — Pete Domenici

26. “Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates.” — Keith Donohue

25. “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.” — Scott Hamilton

27. “Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.” — Randall Jarrell

28. “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.” — Philip Larkin

29. “Black ice is the smoothest naturally occurring ice there is as if nature were condescending to art. … Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace and far rare. … I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will.” — Lorene Cary

28. “Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water’s hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Funny Ice Skating Quotes

Explore the lighter side of skating through these quotes that blend humor and introspection.

31. “Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things – I found that out the hard way.” — Todd Bridges

32. “I love skating so much, and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that’s what I’m meant to do.” — Clara Hughes

33. “Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.” — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

34. “Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.” — Gracie Gold

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

36. “Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.” — Robin Cousins

37. “You know what’s good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don’t have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life, I’ve been the one skating. — Joe Sakic

38. “Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the Winter Olympics.” — Marvin Olasky

39. “If at first, you don’t succeed, you get back up, and you try … and you try … and you try it again … except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!” — Little Richard

40. “It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice skate.” — Dorothy Parker

Other Ice Skating Quotes

Here are more quotes for your enjoyment.

41. “I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training.” — Sasha Cohen

42. “I’m not worried about how fast the ice is. I’m worried about how fast I can go on the ice.” — Clara Hughes

43. “I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I’m free from the world, and I have no problems at all.” — Jim Carrey

44. “Somebody who’s learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection, and elbow pads because you do fall quite a bit.” — Gerad Adams

45. “It was all too easy to make things up; it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.” — Jostein Gaarder

46. “It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time.” — Sidney Crosby

47. “My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.” — P. K. Sun

48. “I don’t really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn’t have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.” — Michelle Kwan

49. “My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full-time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.” — Dorothy Hamill

50. “Puck in the center of your chest, always have motion in your skating when the rush is coming at you, being square to the puck, understanding who’s on the ice and where they are on the ice at all times, competing and having fun.” — Jake Allen