Skiing Quotes - Page 5

• Consolidation in the skiing equipment industry cannot be allowed to lead to higher prices, lower quality or less innovative products.

  Neelie Kroes

  Quality, Equipment, Innovative

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• If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey?
  Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

  Milton Friedman

  Football, Hockey, Rocks

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• We've tried to create something that's much more like being at a mountain resort. Many of these types of facilities done in the past paid little regard to structure or the environment and just focused on the sport of skiing. We've gone a step further and provided an immersive environment.

  Phil Taylor

  Sports, Past, Mountain

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• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

  Vanessa Mae

  Moving, Piano, Violin

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• If I ask any­body who learned to ski after the age of five, they can remem­ber their first day of skiing-what the weather was like, who they went with, what they had for lunch. I believe that's because that first day on skis was the first day of total free­dom in their life.

  Warren Miller

  Believe, Weather, Lunch

  "Warren Miller: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 30, 2008.

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• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in powder is the original human self, which lies deeply inside each of us, still undamaged in spite of what our present culture tries to do to us. Once experienced, this kind of living is recognized as the only way to live — fully aware of the earth and the sky and the gods and you, the mortal, playing among them.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Fun, Lying, Reality

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• I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Icy, Slopes

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• My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

  Edmund Hillary

  Taken, Holiday, Years

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Swimming, Fishing

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• I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

  Minka Kelly

  Sports, Shoes, Littles

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

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• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Summer, Winter, Hiking

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• Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

  Hayley Atwell

  Fun, Nice, Trying

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• My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

  Britt Ekland

  Summer, Beach, Father

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• And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.

  Sutton Foster

  Tears, Adults

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Drowsy Chaperone's Sutton Foster Plus Pajama Game on Disc". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 12, 2006.

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• I'm a massive scaredy cat. I'm scared of being in a fast car, I'm scared of being on a rollercoaster, I would never go skiing, I would never do anything that had the possibility of endangering my life in any way. I should get some therapy, really.

  Sharon Horgan

  Cat, Car, Way

  "This much I know". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

  Daryn Kagan

  Phones, Cells, Two

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• I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

  Jason Priestley

  Night, Water, Missing

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• When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.

  William Shatner

  Horse, School, Holiday

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sports, Waiting, Hills

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

  Susan Minot

  Sports, Snow, Miracle

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• I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  Running, Winning, Parent

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• When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  Years, Very Good

  "Not My Job: Skier Mikaela Shiffrin Gets Quizzed On Downhill Cheese Races". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 11, 2014.

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• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Country, Colorado, Clubs

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• I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.

  Sebastian Bach

  Past, Clouds, Long

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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