Skiing Quotes - Page 3

• The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Football, Winter

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• I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

  Gil Gerard

  Golf, Hbo, Projects

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• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Fun, Years, Dancing

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

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• Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  People, Snow, Effort

  Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art

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• My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

  Joely Fisher

  Mom, Years, Wyoming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Morning, Quality, Evening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

  Bode Miller

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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• I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

  Robert Huber

  Sports, Reading, Light

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• My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

  Bode Miller

  Horse, Fun, Racing

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• I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Wife, Taught, Conservative

  "Traveling with the Stars: Buzz Aldrin". Interview with for Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  Dana Hill

  Hiking, Mountain, Wonder

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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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• 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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• My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

  Shawn Johnson

  Training, Olympics, Skis

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• In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

  Vanessa Mae

  Summer, Sunset, Sunday

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• I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

  Bode Miller

  School, Snowboarding, Technique

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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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• My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

  Douglas Preston

  Kayaking, Hiking, Cooking

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• I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

  Roger Moore

  Swimming, Play, Tennis

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• I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

  Picabo Street

  Focus, Competition, Clock

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• Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That guy won a gold medal in the Olympics" "Oh yeah, that's cool, i wanna watch the fat guy" "Come on dude, you can take that hill"

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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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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• I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

  Mike May

  Water, Sound, Wave

  "The trees were a deeper green than I imagined, and so tall" by Mike May, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2003.

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• When I started skiing my pants were baggy and my cheeks were tight------Now my cheeks are baggy and my pants are tight.

  Warren Miller

  Pants, Cheeks

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• [I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Mountain

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