Your Favorite Dick Buttonisms

[paskatefan]

I forget who he made this reference to, but the quote was, "This program could use a little more swan and a little less lake"

Was that when Fumie skated her free skate at 2003 Worlds? If it was, I was still so glad she medalled there.

[IceAlisa]

"Her back is so straight, you could iron a shirt on it." Hands down my favorite Button masterpiece.

Second one is Oxalis Bauil. That's what my husband has been calling all oxalis that pops up in our garden. :)

[Jenna]

"The position on that layback is first rate!"

[Nomad]

"Well, that's an ugly spin." (Yoshie Onda's layback, GPF 2003?)

[Fallcolor]

"That's my least favourite position"

[Enthusiast]

"There's no shizzzle in that twizizzle"

[MR-FAN]

Re Nagasu: Will the souffle souffel?

And about a billion brilliant lines just from skating with the stars :P

[Slowdive]

"Her spins are just as difficult...just as important...MORE difficult, in fact, than jumps are...."
-referring to Lucinda Ruh's short program at 1999 Worlds & the fact that spins weren't given the same amount of credit as jumps

[Screenie]

on being cut from commentating at worlds, he said something like: "it's not the first dinner party i wasn't invited to, and it won't be the last"

[IceJunkie]

"Good for you, Lucinda Ruh!"

"There is an ease and a backbone and a great deal of forceful exposure to making this a good event."

One of the best Uncle Dick interviews ever. I would LOVE to spend a day with him.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021101460.html

:rofl:

[IceAlisa]

He says one high-ranking woman used to skate with her arms so close to her sides it was like she was making "armpit farts."

OK, what is he talking about here? :sekret:

[my little pony]

was it nicole bobek that he said he wanted to put over his knee and spank? in retrospect, i wish he had

[Margot]

"It's raining teddy bears!" after a Michelle Kwan performance.

Also, "Everyone in the arena is standing, including me!" after Rudy Galindo's Nationals win.

[pinky33]

My all time favorite - The music of The Fire Bird is taking off but she sure isn't!

[alchemy void]

My favorite Dick Button is the one I hope to hear while he still has some dignity left. "I shouldn't be doing TV anymore."

True that. There's a reason why he was banned from commentating in the late 2000s. Button was definitely my favorite (American) commentator up until the early-mid 2000s, but he started to lose it quickly thereafter. I will never forgive him for lambasting my precious freakin Liashenko in the 2006 Olympics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Jyl6dXaiM). :drama: He was sooo unnecessarily bitchy he even shut up Sandra and Scott...