Ski Slopes Quotes

When I go skiing, I may carry a phone, but it's there for safety purposes. I'm not one of these guys that reads his email while he's riding up on the chair lift.

We are a family of skiers, and great skiers.

I can ski out of my back door.

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.

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

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.

Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.

I like the challenge and instant gratification of landing a new jump or learning a new element. That made me fall in love with the sport.

I started skiing when I was five years old. I grew up on a little 300-foot mountain called Perfect North Slopes. It wasn't a great destination in the world, but it was a good enough place to learn how to do tricks.

I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

My dad is a phenomenal skier.

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.

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 get this adrenaline rush from just going down the course and feeling like I made a really great turn and I'm going to do it again and again and again. That feeling can't be replaced, and that's the feeling I'm striving to get every time I go out there.

The skiing center of the world is southeastern Indiana, where I like to call home. It looks like the Alps there; it's crazy.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.

Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

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.

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.

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