Skis Quotes

• I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

  Nancy Greene

  Sports, Giving Up, Real

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• It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Nature, Fun, Water

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• It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

  Hermann Maier

  Fun, Winning, Race

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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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• The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Years, Snow

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

  Bode Miller

  Sports, Racing, Skiing

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

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• Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I’m in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can’t get up right away.

  Chelsea Handler

  Baby, Turtles, Medicine

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Country, Witty

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• My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

  Hermann Maier

  Attitude, Racing, Pressure

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do.

  Warren Miller

  Years, Ifs

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

  Warren Miller

  Leap Of Faith, Skiing, Gravity

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• There is no such thing as too much snow.

  Doug Coombs

  Fishing, Snow, Too Much Power

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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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• Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Sexy, Morning, Night

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

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Motivational, Strength, Power

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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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• 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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