Quotes About Skiing

My father didn't want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

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

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.

I can ski out of my back door.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.

Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

I didn't even ski halfpipe until I was 14 because the resort where I lived didn't have one. So it wasn't always my favorite event, but I grew into it.

I don't listen to music when I ski - I find it distracting - but I will sing to myself before I go to just get my mind out of what I'm doing and relax a little bit.

That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That's for me. That's what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

All my children ski now, they don't have a choice. They have to join mom and dad on the ski hill.

I learned to ski in the Dolomites at the age of five. Ski lifts didn't exist then, so I did everything on foot.

I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.

I think part of the fun about walking around in ski boots is making it look as awkward as possible. I really think that's enjoyable. I don't know why.