Tina Maze Quotes

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 just - I fell in love with the sport when I started to ski gates. Once I was allowed to start training gates around 6 years old, then I really fell in love with it.

We are a family of skiers, and great skiers.

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

It's hard to give tips to skiers if I don't know how they ski, but I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.

Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.

My dad is a phenomenal skier.

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

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.

I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.

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.

People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

I'm active - I like playing football, but I'm not very good. I like running, but I'm not really fast.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

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

I can ski out of my back door.

Most of my family are good athletes.

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.