Skiers Quotes

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

  Dave Barry

  Snowboarding, People, Literature

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.86, Ballantine Books

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• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  Edmund Hillary

  Years, Effort, Done

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• Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Country, Witty

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

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

  Tim Cahill

  Running, Snow, Sensual

  Tim Cahill (1989). “A Wolverine is Eating My Leg”, Vintage

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• There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

  Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

  Love, Three, Slides

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• 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.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Fun, Thinking, Important

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• Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

  Warren Miller

  Leap Of Faith, Skiing, Skis

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• I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

  Dave Barry

  Snowboarding, Years, Body

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.66, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Sports, Order

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment.

  Kevin Andrews

  Brain, Important, Use

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• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Sports, Fun, Reality

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• I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sports, Hills, Skiing

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• Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Crosses, Polls

  "Exclusive Interview: Sarah Palin on Animal Rights". Interview with Andrew Kirschner, kirschnerskorner.com. January 26, 2016.

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• It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

  Hermann Maier

  Stills, Elegant

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• From the bodybuilding days on, I learned
  that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Bodybuilding, Total Recall, Skis

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person.

  Shaun White

  Team, Snowboarding, Want

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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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• The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

  Larry Trask

  Alaska, Snow, Different

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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, Skis, 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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• Each year, millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Colorado, Emergencies

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

  Kenneth Cranham

  Boys, Firsts, Film

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• If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

  Marcel Hirscher

  Winning, Want, Ifs

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• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  Hannah Kearney

  Winning, Gold, Firsts

  "Exclusive: Gold Medal Winner Hannah Kearney On Her Olympic Experience" by Hannah Kearney, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2010.

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• People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Memories, Book

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