1897 in Sports - Figure Skating

Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)

“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)