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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.
When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
I just skated for the fun of it.
The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.