Skiing Quotes

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Country, Witty

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• Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Running, Goal

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• Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Sports, Wings, Next

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• Feel the mountain and let it show you how you're going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn't a fight, it's a dance, and the mountain always leads.

  Jim Bowden

  Fighting, Relax, Mountain

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

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Sports, Thinking, Church

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• Skiing is the best way in the world to waste time.

  Glen Plake

  Sports, Time, World

  "New skis, same old punker attitude". Interview with Scott Willoughby, www.denverpost.com. November 6, 2006.

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• There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder snow. It gives a supreme feeling of freedom, mobility. A great sense of flying, moving anywhere in a great white paradise.

  Hans Gmoser

  Moving, White, Snow

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• There are only four things you can do on skis. Turn right, turn left, go straight, or sell them.

  Warren Miller

  Four, Skis, Turns

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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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• Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Sometimes

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• You can't get hurt skiing, unless you fall

  Warren Miller

  Hurt, Fall

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

  Jean-Marie Messier

  Risk, Needs

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• The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

  Warren Miller

  Backwards, Best Things

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

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Long, Enjoyable

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

  Warren Miller

  Leap Of Faith, Skis, Gravity

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• There's no such thing as too much power!

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Motivational, Strength, Power

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• Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

  Spalding Gray

  Sex, Might, Seven

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• Here in the deep powder snow you don't hear yourself ski. You don't hear your long turns or your short turns. You just float. The faster you go, the better. The less you struggle, the better. You move through the deep light snow, through the deep snow with some crust on it, through the deep snow with some wind in it.

  Jacques Labrie

  Struggle, Moving, Light

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• In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one mountain, by a lift may be convenient but it robs us of the greatest pleasure that skiing can give, that is to travel through the wide wintery country; to follow the lure of peaks which tempt on the horizon and to be alone for a few days or even hours in clear, mysterious surroundings.

  Hans Gmoser

  Country, Giving, Snow

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• I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

  John Denver

  Deep Love, Years, Affair

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

  Joely Fisher

  Workout, Giving, Legs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Judah Friedlander

  Thinking, Nerd

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