A lot of people think that you have to specialize in one sport from an early age in order to turn pro.… — Pat LaFontaine Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself,… — Bob Lefsetz Copy Share Image
Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I left the clinic in a daze that had nothing to do with my head injury. Clear up in a week or… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When… — Reggie Crist Copy Share Image
My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to…I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie… — Lynsey Dyer Copy Share Image
Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
Amy was profoundly shocked. "A little over an hour ago, our bus was attacked by three men in ski masks. They definitely… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your… — Ted Ligety Copy Share Image
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski… — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in… — Ted Ligety Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I… — Lynsey Dyer Copy Share Image
I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski,… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The torches ran off, and I found myself in a forest, at night, without any light, on skis, and that was not… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked… — SonReal Copy Share Image
Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski.… — Ian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry… — Nancy Greene Copy Share Image
The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
![“There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08b/rush-limbaugh-28_country_there-s-one-reason-why-presidents-day-is_1955138.jpg)
![“I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.” quote by Marcia Gay Harden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/marcia-gay-harden-8656_50th-birthday_i-celebrated-my-50th-birthday-by-throwin_568039.jpg)
![“I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at a ski resort one summer. He died in 1983. Only in 1999 or so, 2000, when I was working as an editor at San Francisco Magazine, did I really come back around to that name because Stanford…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dde/jonathon-keats-10822_archives_i-didn-t-grow-up-with-buckminster-fuller_3035794.jpg)
