Skis Quotes - Page 8

• I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Independent, People, Benefits

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.176, Random House

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• When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

  Bode Miller

  Sports, Mistake, Easier

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• We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Country, Japan

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• A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Silly, Golf

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• Après ski is my favorite sport.

  Barbara Walters

  Sports, My Favorite, Favorite Sports

  Barbara Walters (2008). “Audition”, p.135, Vintage

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• I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.

  Tony Blackburn

  Water Skiing, Years, Clubs

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

  Benoit Lecomte

  Sports, Kids, Order

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• Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Best Love, People, Risk

  "Ruth Westheimer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans.

  Dana Gould

  Hoodies, Looks, Hips

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 29, 2012

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• You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Practice, Laughing, Feelings

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• I'd never even looked at a pair of skis. I didn't even realise the boots were separate. I thought it was one whole thing.

  Chloe Madeley

  Boots, Pairs, Realising

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• My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

  SonReal

  Good Friend, Film, Used

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm dreading being on a ski cross with other skiers who don't know what they're doing.

  Heather Mills

  Crosses, Skiers, Knows

  "The Jump: Heather Mills has broken 'every bone in her body' but refuses to give up" by Alistair McGeorge, www.mirror.co.uk. January 26, 2015.

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• Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture.

  SonReal

  Couple, Athlete, Culture

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sports, Cardinals, Unbecoming

  Quoted in St. Petersburg Times, 7 Sept. 1987

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• The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Race, Order

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• Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Heart, Broken, Stronger

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Nice, Racing, Stopping

  Interview with Branden Peters, www.askmen.com. December 5, 2013.

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• You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  People, Soul, Body

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• Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Sea, Guy, Scuba Divers

  "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". www.theatlantic.com. July/August 2008.

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• [Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Clothes, Dresses

  Sports Illustrated, 1988.

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• I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You need to make time for your genius to flow. We get our creative bursts, those idea torrents that take our business and personal lives to the next level, while we are skiing or drinking coffee in a Starbucks or walking in the woods or meditation with a sunrise. Those pursuits are not a waste of time. Creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. And when it comes, it brings ideas that rock your world.

  Robin Sharma

  Drinking, Coffee, Creativity

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• It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in my head, and when I start to ski that rhythm and I start to really link my turns together, all of a sudden there's so much flow and power that I just can't help but feel amazing. That's where the joy comes from.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  Song, Joy, Together

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• It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

  Reggie Crist

  Want, Shapes, Mental Toughness

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• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  Larry David

  Fighting, People, Chocolate

  "Curb Your Enthusiasm". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (2000– ).

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