Competing Quote by Eddie the Eagle

I was winning a lot when I was young in skiing, and in tennis I never won. And then slowly I started to lose…

— Jannik Sinner

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

— Shawn Johnson

One year I won many trophies when skiing, but then the year after I felt that physically, the others were so much stronger.

— Jannik Sinner

I wasn't really allowed to ski during my career because it was too risky in terms of potential injuries.

— Tim Henman

I was the best ski jumper in the United Kingdom.

— Eddie the Eagle

I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral…

— Ali Krieger

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in…

— Mikaela Shiffrin

I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman that…

— Bonnie St. John

I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40…

— Bode Miller

I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that…

— Mike Schultz

I was an expert skier who set his sights on going to the 1988 Olympics in Canada to represent Britain, and went from novice…

— Eddie the Eagle

It had been a dream of mine to go to an Olympic Games since I was about seven years old. I didn't know I'd…

— Eddie the Eagle