Alpine Skiing Quotes

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

Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That guy won a gold medal in the Olympics" "Oh yeah, that's cool, i wanna watch the fat guy" "Come on dude, you can take that hill"

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

I didn't even ski halfpipe until I was 14 because the resort where I lived didn't have one. So it wasn't always my favorite event, but I grew into it.

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.

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

My dad is a phenomenal skier.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

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.

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.

My best event is Super-G. I'm competitive in all my events, but Super-G has been most consistent for me.

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

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

I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

I've done an awful lot of skiing all over Europe: I've done Italy, Austria, France. I skied loads in New Zealand - I did pretty much every ski slope I could find.

I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.

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

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

As a fan of skiing and surfing, I take great interest in Olympics.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.