Heather Mills Quotes

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

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in Vail. Of course, they were holding on to me the whole time, but that was my first experience 'skiing.'

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

You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.

I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.

I'd encourage anyone at any level to take lessons, as it really can turn you into a different kind of skier.

Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

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

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

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.

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

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.

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

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.

I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

That's my perfect day: going skiing.

I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!

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'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.