Top 308 Ski Quotes & Sayings

Jet ski and wild noises.

I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.

I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.

I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.

I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

I started going on ski trips at senior school. I can't remember exactly where but we skied in the Tirol in Austria a couple of times and also went to Val d'Isère in France. When I was 15, rugby took over and there wasn't time to ski any more. I didn't ski again until I was 33.

I want to ski as long as I can.

There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you're wasted, it's not easy. Try and ski a slalom when … you hit a gate less than every one a second, so it's risky, you know. You're putting your life at risk there. It's like driving drunk only there's no rules about it in ski racing.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

I can ski out of my back door.

I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country - and getting there was my gold medal.

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

I'm dreading being on a ski cross with other skiers who don't know what they're doing.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

I slalom ski. I wakeboard. I hike and rock climb.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!

Après ski is my favorite sport.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

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.

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

In 2012, I was invited to a ski event called the Hartford Ski Spectacular to learn how to sit-ski for the first time. I loved it, but it was not pretty - I was not good. I didn't know how to stop, so I kept throwing myself on the ground.

I ski and grew up skiing.

I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.

Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.

I love to hike, fly-fish, and ski in the mountains where I live in Colorado.

It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in my head, and when I start to ski that rhythm and I start to really link my turns together, all of a sudden there's so much flow and power that I just can't help but feel amazing. That's where the joy comes from.

Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.

I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.

I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.

My wife Santa is a fanatical skier, going to Klosters many times a year. To please her, I have for 12 years tried to ski, abseil, mountain-climb, para-scend, heli-ski, land-lauf, ice-skate, toboggan, luge, bobsleigh, yodel, gulp gluhwein, dunk bread in cheese fondue, or even walk in the mountains. I have failed at every one of these pursuits.

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

I was like the George Clooney of the ski business.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

I was the best ski jumper in the United Kingdom.

I love to ski and drive fast cars and the thrill of exciting things.

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

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

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.

All my children ski now, they don't have a choice. They have to join mom and dad on the ski hill.

I learned to ski in the Dolomites at the age of five. Ski lifts didn't exist then, so I did everything on foot.

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.

My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.

I wish they'd build a ski jump at the Grand Canyon; it'd be fantastic.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

I learned how to cross-country ski.

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

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.

You know what the best thing about morning ski trips are? McDonald's!

When I ski, I take both of my legs off and get into a sit ski: a ski with a custom seat that has been molded for me. I use my core and arms to propel myself on snow with help from ski poles.

As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.

With ski jumping I reached a plateau and the more I did it the worse I got.

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

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'