Skiing Quotes - Page 5

• When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

  Bode Miller

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

  Ingemar Stenmark

  Fighting, Winning, Racing

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• I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.

  Tony Blackburn

  Water Skiing, Years, Clubs

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• In the future I would like to try other forms of racing, testing Formula cars or single seaters would be good, but again it is finding the time as I am incredibly busy. I don't think I have the time to try any other new sports. I have already cut skiing out of my routine in order to manage the racing and riding relationship. By the looks of things I am going to be busy for quite a few years.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Winter

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• I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Sports, Ocean, Swimming

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• If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz

  Willy Bogner, Jr.

  Littles, Shows, Show Biz

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• The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.

  Jay Leno

  New York, War, Hero

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• Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

  Paul Theroux

  Mother, Morning, Home

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". The Atlantic Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

  Benoit Lecomte

  Sports, Kids, Order

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• Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.

  John Irving

  Wrestling, Tennis, Musical

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• I don't know if you've ever been skiing, but if you go to the slope you'll see all these kids fearlessly zooming by. It's only when we get older that fear creeps in. But for me, it just never has. And when it comes to racing, it's always about who is willing to go further, who is willing to take that extra step. I'm willing to take any amount of pain to win. I'm hungry like you.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Pain, Kids, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you first try to learn to ride a bike, you work very carefully at keeping your balance, and trying to keep one pedal in front of the other, and all that, and all of a sudden, ah, you know, I got it. And that's true of skiing, or it's true of all kinds of things.

  Darold Treffert

  Balance, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.

  Donna Karan

  Children, I Love My Family, Family And Friends

  Interview With Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.

  Greg Rutherford

  Winter, Mountain, Olympics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint.

  Doug Rice

  School, College, Years

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.

  Doug Rice

  Winter, Lakes, Sailing

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

  Julie Bowen

  Mom, Husband, Dad

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.

  Annie Lennox

  Color, Risk, Sound

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids, and working out with my friends.

  Tom Brady

  Kids, Work Out, Surfing

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• I think when you go skiing you have to buy into the après, so it has to be lively for me. There is such a unique atmosphere in ski resorts that it's all about having fun once you get off the mountain and, as a couple, we embrace that.

  Mike Tindall

  Fun, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

  Mike Tindall

  Running, Struggle, Snowboarding

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

  Mike Tindall

  Home, Player, Risk

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.

  Mike Tindall

  Couple, Able, England

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

  Douglas Booth

  Would Be, Imagine, Skis

  Source: www.justjared.com

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