Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Ligety

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Theodore Sharp Ligety is a retired American alpine ski racer, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and an entrepreneur, having cofounded Shred Optics. Ligety won the combined event at the 2006 Olympics in Turin and the giant slalom race at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. He is also a five-time World Cup champion in giant slalom. Ligety won the gold medal in the giant slalom at the 2011 World Championships. He successfully defended his world title in giant slalom in 2013 in Schladming, Austria, where he also won an unexpected gold medal in the super-G and a third gold medal in the super combined.

American - Athlete | Born: August 31, 1984

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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

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

Ted Ligety

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

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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.

Ted Ligety

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

Ted Ligety

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

Ted Ligety

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Ted Ligety

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

Ted Ligety

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

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

Ted Ligety

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

Ted Ligety

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.

Ted Ligety

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.

Ted Ligety

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.

Ted Ligety

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

Ted Ligety

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

Ted Ligety

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

Ted Ligety

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

Ted Ligety

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

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I was skiing fast in training, but that really doesn't count for anything until you actually do it in a race. So to finally get to prove how fast you are skiing is an added bonus that goes along with winning the first race of the year. Any race win is a good win. I don't really care where it is. I've been on the podium a bunch of times here, but it's always good for your confidence to start off the year with a victory.

Ted Ligety

Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your skis carve unless you’re going down the hill leaning forward, and that puts you in a good athletic position to do whatever you want to do on your skis—make quick turns, make long turns, or absorb bumps.

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Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Ligety

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