Sebastian Bach Quotes

My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years, I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children - they simply forget how much it hurts.

My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'

I was like the George Clooney of the ski business.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

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.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.

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

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

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

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

That's my perfect day: going skiing.

If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis.

I just love to be on my skis, skiing with my friends, just going out into the mountains and being in nature and skiing some powder. That's the best thing.

My dad would load me into the car under a pile of blankets in the middle of the night so I could sleep the whole way and be on the mountain when it opened.

I would love to do skiing and go with my mates and have a chalet, have a drink, have a good time, and just switch off. Or maybe a marathon or something crazy like that.

Flagstaff, up in the mountains where I lived, there is 130 inches of snow a year.

The video for 'Last Christmas' was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It was a glorious affair, and the two days we spent shooting it were a riot of laughter and fun, which I think comes across.