Skiing Quotes - Page 4

• Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a positive attitude, and enjoy the bumps in the road. I like to say that if things aren’t to your liking, change your liking.

  Rick Steves

  Fun, Attitude, Risk

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• 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.

  Barry Moltz

  Snow, Mountain, Needs

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• I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that's all I can ask for.

  Nick Goepper

  Eagles, Giving, Trying

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 2014.

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

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Fall, Trying, Ifs

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Disappointment, Insecurity, Outlets

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• I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Grateful, Hockey

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

  Brian Grazer

  Weekend, Class, People

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

  Lindsey Vonn

  Done, Want, Feels

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• I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Tired, Winning

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• I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  Remember

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• I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see miles around you, and the sun is almost down .

  Roman Polanski

  Mountain, Sun, Moments

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

  Rita Rudner

  Water Skiing, Boat, Someday

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• You won't get hurt skiing if you don't fall.

  Warren Miller

  Hurt, Fall, Ifs

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• All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Doors, Water Skiing

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• 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.

  Alexander McQueen

  Running, School, Blue

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• Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

  Ricky Gervais

  Atheism, Hobbies, Belief

  "Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions" by Ricky Gervais, blogs.wsj.com. December 22, 2010.

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• We're really friendly. The cool thing about skiing is you're competing against the clock. Even though you're competing against your teammates, it's not head-to-head. And we can all do better. You can always do better. You never really have a perfect run. And someone beats you. So you can't really blame anyone.

  Julia Mancuso

  Running, Perfect, Friendly

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the roots. But the Olympics is a world stage for athletics and it's going to be pretty sweet to represent our sport and represent our culture and show everyone what we're all about.

  Nick Goepper

  Sports, Sweet, Roots

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 2014.

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• I started skiing when I was five years old. I grew up on a little 300-foot mountain called Perfect North Slopes. It wasn't a great destination in the world, but it was a good enough place to learn how to do tricks.

  Nick Goepper

  Years, Feet, Perfect

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 2014.

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• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  George Polya

  Art, Swimming, Practice

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK

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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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• I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slopestyle skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.

  Nick Goepper

  Summer, Sports, Winter

  "Sochi: Olympic Medal-Winning Skier Nick Goepper Talks Twitter, Tinder, Newfound Fame" by Debbie Emery, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 20, 2014.

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• The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.

  Ron Pickering

  Nordic, Nations

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