Skiing Technique Quotes

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

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

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

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.

I learned how to cross-country ski.

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

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

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

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.

People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

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

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

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

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.

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

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.

I don't think you necessarily have to be crazy-fit for freeskiing. So much of the sport has to do with agility and nimbleness and flexibility and other things. It's a lot of muscle memory - it's more like dance, in a way - it's technique more than strength or endurance.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

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.