Dave Barry Quotes

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

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.'

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.

That's my perfect day: going 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'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

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

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.

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

I've been a skier since I was 2 or 3, skiing with my dad in northern New York and Vermont.

Skiing is ridiculous.

I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport.

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

My wife Santa is a fanatical skier, going to Klosters many times a year. To please her, I have for 12 years tried to ski, abseil, mountain-climb, para-scend, heli-ski, land-lauf, ice-skate, toboggan, luge, bobsleigh, yodel, gulp gluhwein, dunk bread in cheese fondue, or even walk in the mountains. I have failed at every one of these pursuits.