John Gourley Quotes

You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.

The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

We grew up in Alaska and will rep The North Face all day long.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.

Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.

In Europe, I was just a little guy... the winters in the mountains were very nasty.

I'm excited to join the Mountain Dew snowboarding team.

Before moving to Delhi at the age of 17, I had only travelled to Patna or Varanasi outside Belwa.

I would feel like such a behind if I went to California and made my family move, and they couldn't find their dreams there, too.

My father had to shift from the village because he didn't have a steady job.

My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.

I used to do things like white-water rafting, trekking and horse-riding safaris. Recently, though, I had the humiliation of having to turn away from a helter skelter. It's a very strange thing when you hit a certain age.

I grew up in Mexico until I was 16, and then we moved to San Antonio because my dad's business was headquartered there.

I love riding halfpipe. This is an amazing job to have.

I wish they'd build a ski jump at the Grand Canyon; it'd be fantastic.

I am a good wife, so I think we need to live where my husband is working.

I grew up watching my sisters and seeing kids at the local mountain hit jumps. After I hit my first jump, I knew this was something I was going to pursue.

I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.

The discovery of the Terror in, of all places, Terror Bay, on the southwest coast of King William Island, was the culmination of years of exertions by the Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Navy, the Coast Guard, Parks Canada, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, the Canadian Ice Service and other agencies.

Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth.

You can find us fishing in Miami offshore somewhere, riding jet skis, and doing fun stuff like that. My brother likes to ski and get out in the snow. We really are nature boys, and when it comes to getting out there and being in nature, there's not too much we don't like.

I love the outdoors. I love getting to hunt and fish and work on the land and ride our horses.

I've always been a risk taker. When I told my mum I was quitting my job to be a bobsledder, she wasn't surprised.