Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by Lindsey Vonn
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Lindsey Vonn.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.
For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.
I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.
Everyone knows marriage is tough.
It seems kind of silly, but it's really nice to chill in the kitchen with a friend and bake. It relaxes me, and mixing is probably my favorite part.
It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.
I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!
You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.
When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing.
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.
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.
An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.
When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.
Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.
I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.
For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.
My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.
In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.
When you fall, get right back up.
Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.
If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.
My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.
Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.
I snack on fruit and nuts. In the middle of my long workouts, I'll have a protein shake.
When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.
I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.
You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!
Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.
The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.
I want to show America who I am and inspire young kids.
It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.
I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.
I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.
I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.
I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early.
Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain.
I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.
Setbacks motivate me.
My mom is positive and optimistic.
It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.
You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.
There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.
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