Skiing Quotes

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, ‘What an idiot; what’s going on here?’

I would love to do skiing and go with my mates and have a chalet, have a drink, have a good time, and just switch off. Or maybe a marathon or something crazy like that.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I’m in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn’t like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I’m very, very afraid to ski. It’s dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I’m acting, I don’t feel very scared.

I’m not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

I don’t like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic.

The only sport I was good at was skiing.

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it’s a complete physical expression of freedom.

I was always a very competitive little kid. I did swimming very competitively, downhill skiing very competitively. Everything was competition.

I love skiing.

Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

When I go skiing in New England, I usually wake up early and drive up to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine to make it in time for chairlift opening. That means leaving early and getting breakfast at one of the little quaint diners up in the mountains.

It’s hard to give tips to skiers if I don’t know how they ski, but I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you’re having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we’ve got some ski resorts close to Las Vegas, up in Mount Charleston or Brian Head, so I grew up skiing and snowboarding.

When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It’s when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school – basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis.

Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport.

I want to learn skiing and parallel bar gymnastics.

I grew up in a hippy town, so I did my playing outdoors and skiing and all that, but then I also had my nerd friends that I went and hosted LAN parties with, get my ‘Counter–Strike‘ on.

I don’t know if it’s just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

There’s so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I’m prepared to do it; it’s just a matter of if I can make it work.

I love France. It’s got the sun down at the bottom, the Alps for skiing, and all that wine and food.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level… I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling… things that require stamina, not finesse.

When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

When I was in the closet, I had so much pressure on my shoulders. When I came out, that was actually the first moment I felt relieved of those stresses. It really showed in my skiing.

I didn’t start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I’m proficiently conservative.

In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles – a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

I heard that I was off traveling around the world skiing in Argentina and things like that. I may have had a great life in somebody‘s mind, but all I was seeing was 9th Avenue while going from my house down to the studio in New York City.

I’m just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games… Even if I played you at pool, I’d have to win.

I discovered and fell in love with skiing long before I started to climb. Skiing was really my first calling. As a kid, I grew up skiing in jeans in Minnesota.

It’s incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We’re all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it’s just hundredths that count. Maybe it’s just one finger or a hand can change the color of a medal.

The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.

I’d love to do a food tour of Italy but the next break I’ll be having is skiing with my dad in Georgia. He’s 58 and only just started skiing, so I’m looking forward to joining him on the slopes.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

When I’m skiing, I listen to electronic music. It’s repetitive and let’s me get into a groove and crank out the miles.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

People are not used to seeing skiing on water, so I can understand why they think it is fake. That’s why we started using outside views: so people can see that’s its real.

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

I realize how fortunate I am to have been able to make a life and career out of skiing.

I love skiing.

I’m still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I’m going to continue to do it.

My first time skiing was in Vail, Colorado. It was brilliant fun until I whacked myself in the face with my ski pole.

I love skiing.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Skiing is ridiculous.

I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they’d had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

Going for a really long run, a bike ride, or cross-country skiing helps me get away from all the noise. I tell myself, ‘The pain you’re feeling, just enjoy it because it’s going to help you across that finish line first.’ If you’re having a crap day, go for a run. It makes a big difference.

Skiing not only for yourself and your family, but for your country, was surreal. The amount of support I got from back home in Indiana was insane.

The harsh cold and windburn from hours of skiing does a lot of damage to my skin, so I try to keep my skin as moisturized as possible.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women‘s Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

I’ve ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle.

Some people thought I wasn’t taking the sport seriously because I was always laughing and having fun, but I loved my skiing, I loved my jumping, and I thought, ‘Well, why not have a smile on my face when I’m doing something that I really, really love doing,’ and that’s how I was.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.

For me a great date will be going on jet skiing or other adventure sport.

The Caribbean is great, but I also love the mountains as well. I’m a big skier, and I love spending time in Switzerland skiing. It really depends.

I became a chalet girl for one simple reason: I couldn’t afford to go skiing. I had got the bug when I worked as an au pair in the Alps, before university.

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in Vail. Of course, they were holding on to me the whole time, but that was my first experience ‘skiing.’

We were not rich. We did not go to the Cote d’Azur or skiing. Our only vacation was to the North Sea. I had to pay for my bicycle every month, but we always had food.

I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There’s something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

I find music distracting – it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

We can’t control what the ratings will be. It’s like, if you’re going to go skiing, do you hope you’ll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won‘t break your leg? Yes.

I don’t think there’s a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it being found out, it was a distraction.

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

The skiing center of the world is southeastern Indiana, where I like to call home. It looks like the Alps there; it’s crazy.

I’m not messing with skiing. You can’t get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

I do uphill skiing; I don’t do downhill skiing. I think that’s for nerd amateurs.

There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

The history of skiing is important to me.

We go to Montana every year – that’s where my husband is from – Flathead Lake, Montana, which is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to in my life. It’s amazing that his entire family lives there. There’s waterskiing, jet skiing, and kayaking, and it’s just really fun.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.

I have a lot of interests outside of football like motorcross, skiing and enjoying experiences with my family.

I try to keep fit, as it’s better for both skiing and plastering. I cycle and jog and I dance a lot – Ceroc, a form of modern jive.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in ’72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn’t stop when you stop skiing.

It’s insane going from skiing to cycling. Even though you are in prime shape, you feel like you have never worked out a day in your life.

I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn’t want to go to university, so I thought I would wander around. I did a season skiing, a bit of sailing, typical spoilt brat stuff. I ended up in the Caribbean. I was having a blast.

At eight or nine I passed the exam for Notting Hill and Ealing High, a private school. I had an assisted place; I was always the one who, for financial reasons, didn’t go on the skiing trip or whatever.

I just love to be on my skis, skiing with my friends, just going out into the mountains and being in nature and skiing some powder. That’s the best thing.

I’m a massive scaredy cat. I’m scared of being in a fast car, I’m scared of being on a rollercoaster, I would never go skiing, I would never do anything that had the possibility of endangering my life in any way. I should get some therapy, really.

When I was eight years old, my mum and dad took me skiing in Valle d’Aosta in northern Italy. I’m not usually a huge fan of snow or cold places, but I loved the fact that we were together as a family.

Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that’s kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don’t fall at least 10 times, then you’re not skiing hard enough.

There are four seasons in Iran, so you can go winter skiing, you can go in summer to the beach… it’s not a real tourism place, but it’s a nice country if you have family and friends to visit there.

Anything that involves the outdoors I’m all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

I love skiing. What on earth have I been doing on a beach all this time? I mean, that’s for morons – you can get sunburn and really damage yourself.

A skiing accident got me into all this. Since I was a physical education major and this limited by physical activity. I took up flying.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you’re proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it’s the best place for skiing – you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.