Ted Ligety Quotes

#1. Tension is the great integrity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#2. 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.

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#3. I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.

Harry Lloyd

#4. When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

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#5. I don't do ski racing to be famous.

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#6. I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.

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#7. I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

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#8. You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got.

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#9. I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

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#10. Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.

Austin Scarlett

#11. I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

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#12. A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.

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#13. Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

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#14. I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.

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#15. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

#16. Maybe I've already died and gone to heaven."

She lifted her hand with a smile. "You think this is heaven?"

"You're touching and kissing me," he said. "So yeah, I think this is heaven.

Jill Shalvis

#17. Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. People always think you have a lot of money when they see you on TV.

Judy Gold

#19. Jesus always colored outside of the lines here, extending grace and healing to those well beyond His people group. He often healed people first; they believed second.

Jen Hatmaker

#20. There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

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#21. I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

Judd Nelson

#22. I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

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#23. I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

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#24. The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

Meir Kahane

#25. It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.

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#26. If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.

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#27. I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.

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#28. Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

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#29. My absolute idols growing up were Michael Jackson and Prince, and so, to get the stamp of approval from someone like Timbaland whom I know that these artists respect, that is a huge feat.

Jussie Smollett

#30. 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.

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#31. I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.

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