Skiing Quotes - Page 2

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

  Guy Fieri

  Fall, Snow, Cooking

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• For the record, I hate skiing... and if you get killed doing it, GOOD.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Hate, Humor

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• There is no such thing as too much snow.

  Doug Coombs

  Fishing, Snow, Too Much Power

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

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

  Bode Miller

  Sports, Racing, Skis

  "Top U.S. Skier Bode Miller Battles Controversy". "All Things Considered" with Chris Arnold, www.npr.org. January 13, 2006.

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

  Picabo Street

  Nice, Looking Forward, Bigs

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• 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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• Joy is the response of a lover receiving what he loves. This is the joy we feel when skiing powder… This overflowing gratitude is what produces the absolutely stupid, silly grins that we always flash at one another at the bottom of a powder run. We all agree that we never see these grins anywhere else in life.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Running, Gratitude, Stupid

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• 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.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Good Day, Legs, Break

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

  Phil Mahre

  Important, Ifs

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• 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.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Food, Order, Clothes

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Sports, Hills, Skis

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• At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ocean, Sunset, Mean

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• Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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• I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

  Roger Moore

  Jumping, Bungee Jumping, Bungee

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• 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.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Race, Want

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• My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.

  C. R. Johnson

  Joy, Dying, My Family

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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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• How could I live without powder?

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Powder

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• 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.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Giving, Guy

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

  Daniel Cudmore

  Snowboarding, Mountain, Biking

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• That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Feelings, World

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• Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

  Robert Redford

  Sports, Baseball, Golf

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• 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.

  Maureen Forrester

  Christian, Baseball, Mother

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