What are your favorite ski quotes?

[Seattle Gal]

Whats your favorite ski quote?

Here is one "serious" and one funny one that I like:

'We do these things not to escape life, but so life does not escape us'

Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk. ~Author Unknown

 

[MaineSkiLady]

"Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads."
-author unknown

 

[MaryLou]

On the t-shirt I bought at Mad River Glen last Friday (first day ever there - omg...what a place, loved it!)

"Do these skis make my ass look fast?"

 

[Jilly]

Seen many good ones on t-shirts

"Life's a mountain, not a beach" (Whistler)

"Just because I slept with you, doesn't mean I have to ski with you"

"I've used up all my sick days, so I called in dead"

But seriously,

A bad of skiing beats a good day at the office.

 

[theBuff]

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking trees down with your face.
- Dave Barry

Powder skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality.
- Dolores LaChapelle

 

[2ski2moro]

If it's too steep, you are too old.

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Vintage Warren Miller:

"Want your ski? GO GET IT!"

"Do it NOW -- or you'll just be one year older when you do."

 

[RachelV]

"One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow."
- Dolores LaChapelle

"If you're getting rad and there's no one there to see it, are you really getting rad?"
- GNAR

"There is no such thing as too much snow."
- Doug Coombs

 

[SnowHot]

Love the Doug Coombs Quote. We need to post that in the whiney tahoe snow thread.

Some of my favourites come from some of my favourite ESA Coaches:

There are two types of snow. Good and Good for you. - Bob Barnes

If you want to get a good taste of powder, first you have to eat some - Bob Barnes

About skiing in a milk bottle(zero visibility)....
If you can't see it, you'll feel it. - Squatty

About poaching someones line....
Sometimes you gotta let your bad self ski - Nolo

 

[ski diva]

"Burn the shed!" -- Delawhere and Vickie during Diva Week at Tahoe, 2010. Go here for the full story.

 

[mountainxtc]

On a WB ad a few seasons back:

To air is human... to land is divine.

 

[pinto]

mollmeister's sig:

Cross-country skiing is great
if you live in a small country. (Steven Wright)

 

[Skier31]

T-shirt at Alta: 6 inches is so Vail.

 

[dloveski]

There are no bad conditions, only bad skiers.

Don't attack the mountain, make love to the mountain, caress it (Carolyn the ski instructor)

I am a ski bum with a work problem.

 

[2ski2moro]

You won't get hurt skiing if you don't fall.-Warren Miller

 

[2ski2moro]

There's no such thing as bad weather... just bad clothing!"

 

[2ski2moro]

You should learn to ski this year because next year, you'll be one year older when you do- Warren Miller

 

[Seattle Gal]

I am a ski bum with a work problem.

This is my new favorite. :p

 

[countessa]

seems that these lines were somewhere on Coombs' memorial site. can't remember.

'there's a race of men who don't fit in
a race that can't stand still
so they break the hearts of kith and kin
to roam the world at will
They range the field and rove the flood
and climb the mountain's crest
For theirs is the curse of the gypsy's blood
and they know not how to rest.'

 

[mustski]

A double diamond t-shirt my DS likes to wear:
"I look good in black."