Skiing Quotes

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

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

How could I live without powder?

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

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%.

I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.

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.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.

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.

Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

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

Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.

I like skiing and surfing with kids. They are the cutest little skiers out there, in their little outfits. I just want to eat 'em up!

If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

I live on the water and I have jet skis. Skiing is my biggest thing, I've been skiing since I was five-years-old.

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.

Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.

After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

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.

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.

I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

The history of skiing is important to me.

I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

Consolidation in the skiing equipment industry cannot be allowed to lead to higher prices, lower quality or less innovative products.

If poles were so important we'd call it Poling instead of Skiing

I'm going to start water skiing someday...as soon as I can separate it from being dragged by a boat.

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

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

As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids, and working out with my friends.

The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.

It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.