I didn’t start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I’m proficiently conservative.
My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.
Look, on the first day of ‘The Jump’ we shared a ski lift together. We got to the top and Vogue skied off and I said, jokingly at the time: ‘I’m going to marry that girl.’ Turns out, I am.
I’m pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it’s still developing. I’m still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.
I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It’s absolutely incredible.
The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening – there’s something to be said for that.
I suppose the most daring thing I’ve ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
I wanted kids to know that it’s cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It’s not one or the other.
There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.
I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.
I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.
The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.
I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing – no one is stopping you from going faster.
There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter.
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I’m still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
It’s good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.
I want to prove to the skeptics that I’m not a clown. I’m very serious about what I do. I want to be a good ski jumper who has a sense of humor.
Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree.
From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in ’72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn’t stop when you stop skiing.
I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it’s always the love that gets me to the podium.
I remember being in St. Lucia and my dad taking me out on a jet ski. I was very young, too young, but, yup, dad does like to break rules.
My son, Laurier, and I love being outdoors. We like to ski and to skate, to play in the snow, and simply to walk and enjoy the winter scenery.
Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
I learned to ski in the Dolomites at the age of five. Ski lifts didn’t exist then, so I did everything on foot.
Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can’t do that. It’s not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.
When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
Switzerland is a place where they don’t like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
We’re not necessarily the ski boat, we’re the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we’re getting pulled right behind them.
I made my dream come true despite all the obstacles – no money, no training, no skis, no snow.
Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It’s really rare when the favorites win.
Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.
I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.
Whether it’s learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.
When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.
I ski, I snowboard, I’ve started to get into skydiving a little bit. I’m a little bit of a thrill-seeker.
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
When I ski, I take both of my legs off and get into a sit ski: a ski with a custom seat that has been molded for me. I use my core and arms to propel myself on snow with help from ski poles.
It’s extremely important for my sit ski to be perfectly fit to me. If it’s too big, and I shift around, the energy and strength I put into propelling myself forward will be lost. The right fit is everything in my sport.
That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That’s for me. That’s what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.
When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.
My boyfriend’s idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, ‘Go!’ Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn’t humiliating, not at all.
My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn’t have had the same passion.
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.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
I’d be nervous about skiing, wondering what I’d do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there’s no reason I couldn’t.
My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
I used to ski. I still play basketball a little bit. I’ll play soccer but more in a safe environment, never on a full-grass pitch.
The video for ‘Last Christmas’ was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It was a glorious affair, and the two days we spent shooting it were a riot of laughter and fun, which I think comes across.
I remember where I was when I wrote that story, ‘Mermaid in a Jar.’ I was at a boyfriend’s, and he was the only boy I ever dated who was rich, and his parents had a ski chalet, and I just didn’t know how to break up with him, so I decided I would be celibate.
I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It’s nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.
I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!
When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.
After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows.
My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up since I’ve been in the Senate.
