Top 100 Ski Quotes
#1. Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
Alan McKay
#2. Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?"
"You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.
Libba Bray
#4. I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.
Luke Perry
#5. It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.
Bode Miller
#6. The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.
Nick Goepper
#7. I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
Yuichiro Miura
#8. 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
#9. If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
Eddie Izzard
#10. 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.
Ted Ligety
#11. I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.
Nick Goepper
#12. Good thinking," he replied. "There's a town I remember being about 10 miles before Lincoln, where we turn off to head for the ski lodge, Compton or Campton, something like that. We can find a place to hide the truck there." "Campton,
Scott Medbury
#13. The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.
Jen Lancaster
#14. Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.
Marion Dane Bauer
#15. When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!
Andrea Bocelli
#17. It'd been a long time since they'd been together, but as close as they were physically, they'd never been so far apart in every other way.
Jennifer Faye
#18. 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
#19. Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
Lindsey Vonn
#20. As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Hermann Maier
#21. There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made the decision never go to a ski coach for mental help. I said last season I will try a mental coach and see how it works.
Michaela Dorfmeister
#22. My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either.
Scott Weiland
#23. When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.
Lindsey Vonn
#24. I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
Aimee Mullins
#25. On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#26. I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...
David Ski
#27. I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
Evan Williams
#28. She'd never set a fantasy in a ski lodge, but she was thinking about it now. She couldn't help it. The man was throwing off pheromones like he was a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Sitting so close to ground zero, the fallout was lethal.
Rachel Gibson
#29. People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.
Craig Cook
#30. If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.
Adam Schlesinger
#31. In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
Dwayne Hickman
#32. Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?
Jill Shalvis
#33. Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#34. I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.
Heather Mills
#35. It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.
Edith Pattou
#36. Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.
Hermann Maier
#37. There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.
Ted Ligety
#38. I ski, I surf, I scuba dive ... any sport that starts with an 's.'
Reid Scott
#39. There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.
Robert Scoble
#40. Could I ever be a Craig? No. A person must be born into Craigdom, with its multiple ski holidays, complex orthodontia, proper nutrition and casual, healthy view of recreational sex. My
Douglas Coupland
#41. I love the sun, but we don't get on at all; it doesn't agree with my Celtic tones. I also like nothing better than putting on a big ski jacket and feeling the wind in my face.
Erin O'Connor
#42. About as much business as a cat owner has selling dog food. Or an Olympic swimmer has advertising for downhill ski equipment. Or a nun writing hard core erotica.
Abso-fucking-none.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#43. We have been around in the States in the ski wear market since the 1950s, but now we feel we can compete in the sportswear field.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#44. With ski jumping I reached a plateau and the more I did it the worse I got.
Mike Tindall
#46. I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
Sylvia Plath
#47. Cupping a cheek in each hand, he lifted her back up to his desk and pressed his hips hard into hers.
Her eyes were worried. "But people keep coming
"
"The next person to come is going to be you," he said.
Jill Shalvis
#48. My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.
Sara Canning
#49. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.
Andrea Bocelli
#50. I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
Andre Leon Talley
#51. Reece, the jerk, appeared unperturbed. He raised a big hand and waved. Hi, folks. My name is Reece Peterson. I'm a wolf from the Pelly River pack in the North West Territories. I work as an ice road trucker and in my spare time I like to camp, ski and, more recently, drive Teddy nuts.
Eve Langlais
#52. 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.
Bode Miller
#53. I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to ... I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie or High Life, but done in a way that also shows the elegance, grace, community and style that is unique to women in the mountains.
Lynsey Dyer
#54. The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.
Brad Alan Lewis
#55. Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
Nate Holland
#56. Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.
Ruth Westheimer
#57. We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
Adam Sandler
#58. My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.
SonReal
#59. At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
Michael Haneke
#60. I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
James MacArthur
#61. It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.
Reggie Crist
#62. I just - I fell in love with the sport when I started to ski gates. Once I was allowed to start training gates around 6 years old, then I really fell in love with it.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#63. It is good here: rustle and snow-crunch ...
Ski tracks on the splendid finery
of the snow; a memory
that long ages ago
we passed here together.
Anna Akhmatova
#64. Not even going to discuss this. I'm going to stay in my gold house and sleep on my gold bed and ski down my piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.
Kresley Cole
#65. I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!
Ivana Trump
#66. While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
Ranulph Fiennes
#67. The torches ran off, and I found myself in a forest, at night, without any light, on skis, and that was not fun - particularly because I was drunk. Luckily at some point I started to see the light of the ski lift. To be in the forest in the middle of the night, it's terrible.
Roman Polanski
#68. A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.
George Mikes
#70. I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude ... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.
Fred Kavli
#71. The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.
Meredith Marple
#74. After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
Shawn Johnson
#76. It's hard to give tips to skiers if I don't know how they ski, but I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.
Lindsey Vonn
#77. I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.
Lena Olin
#78. When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
Bode Miller
#79. I grew up in Mammoth Lakes, and they shot an episode up there, and I was hanging around when I was on the ski team. I was very, very involved in athletics, so I didn't watch a lot of TV, but I definitely watched a lot of '90210.'
Trevor Donovan
#80. I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
Lindsey Vonn
#81. I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.
Melissa Leo
#82. They don't want you to jet ski, they don't want you to smile.
DJ Khaled
#83. In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.
Mallory Ortberg
#84. Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans ...
Dana Gould
#85. Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt.
Haruki Murakami
#86. I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.
Lewis Clarke
#87. I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.
Johnny Depp
#88. I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well." I want people to say, "You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?" That's right, I do everything.
Harold Ramis
#89. I am not a big skier, but I love apres-ski wear and imagine I would look great in an all-white, fur-trimmed ski suit.
Jane Green
#90. Books of silver; books of bone; and yet the strangest thing you see in all your years at Galvanic is a boy in a ski-mask, sitting in a basement, using a computer.
Robin Sloan
#91. There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.
Rush Limbaugh
#92. I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.
Douglas Booth
#93. If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.
Neil Peart
#94. I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
Carre Otis
#95. I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.
Erik Weihenmayer
#96. My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.
Lindsey Vonn
#97. Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.
Warren Miller
#98. Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
Lindsey Vonn
#99. I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
Bode Miller
#100. I stopped snowboarding as I started to recognize symptoms that corresponded with radiation sickness when at high altitude ski resorts.
Steven Magee
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