Ski Training Quotes

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.

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

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.

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

Here's the thing. You can't get ten thousand hours of skiing. You spend so much time on the chairlift. My coach did a calculation of how many hours I've been on snow. We'd been overestimating. I think we came up with something like eleven total hours of skiing on snow a year. It's, like, seven minutes a day.

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

The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.

I want to learn skiing and parallel bar gymnastics.

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

I always practice, even on the cat tracks or in those interstitial periods. My dad says, 'Even when you're just stopping, be sure to do it right, maintaining a good position, with counter-rotational force.' These are the kinds of things my dad says, and I'm like, 'Shut up.'

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.

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

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