Picabo Street Quotes

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.'

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

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

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

There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.

That's my perfect day: going skiing.

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 remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

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 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.

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'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

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.

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

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.

Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.

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've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

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

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

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

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

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