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My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.' -- Scott Ellis
Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink. -- Carl Hagelin
I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also. -- Micky Ward
I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience. -- Katarina Witt
My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life. -- Peggy Fleming
I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger. -- Michael Rosenbaum
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep. -- Nancy Kerrigan
I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career. -- Bonnie Langford
I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink. -- Tatiana Maslany
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way. -- Jennifer Aniston
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
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there. -- Gordie Howe
You get to the rink, stretch for 10-15 minutes, go on the ice 20 minutes before practice starts and do goalie drills, practice for an hour, then stay on the ice for about 10-15 minutes to do extra shooting. -- Henrik Lundqvist
Oftentimes we will get to the rink when the sun comes up and leave when the sun is setting, so on a weekend, I really like to spend at least one day outside and not be stuck indoors all day. -- Meryl Davis
I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot. -- Tom Scholz
It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important. -- Sidney Crosby
When I'm practicing, I think I'm pretty focused, and I spend a lot of energy on making sure I get better, but once I'm outside the rink, I think, like anyone else, I like to enjoy everything that everyone else does. -- Sidney Crosby
I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week. -- Sasha Cohen
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. -- Dorothy Hamill
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson. -- Nancy Kerrigan
Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually. -- Patrick Chan
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled. -- Dorothy Hamill
Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink. -- Michio Kaku
I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then - bam! - he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad. -- Christian Serratos
Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake. -- Carl Hagelin
When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep. -- Alex Gibney
As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural. -- Darby Stanchfield
We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey, -- Jeremy Roenick
My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life -- Peggy Fleming
There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament. -- Preston Manning
My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54. -- Liberty Ross
I don't mind a little blood on the ice when it's a hockey rink, but I hate seeing blood on the ice when it's from baby seals. -- Pamela Anderson
Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus. -- Glenn Healy
If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating. -- Brian Boitano
You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day. -- Dany Heatley
I don't think anything in my game has regressed in the last couple years. I think I've only gotten better. I keep wanting to assume more responsibility in all parts of the rink. -- Jonathan Toews

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