I’ve had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
At eight or nine I passed the exam for Notting Hill and Ealing High, a private school. I had an assisted place; I was always the one who, for financial reasons, didn’t go on the skiing trip or whatever.
In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles – a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
There’s so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I’m prepared to do it; it’s just a matter of if I can make it work.
I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing – my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
We can’t control what the ratings will be. It’s like, if you’re going to go skiing, do you hope you’ll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won’t break your leg? Yes.
That’s my perfect day: going skiing.
I love skiing.
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.
I do uphill skiing; I don’t do downhill skiing. I think that’s for nerd amateurs.
When I was in the closet, I had so much pressure on my shoulders. When I came out, that was actually the first moment I felt relieved of those stresses. It really showed in my skiing.
When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I’m going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.
I’m never tired of winning, and I’m never tired of skiing.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%.
In 2013, I had the chance to try cross-country skiing on snow and just fell in love with being in nature and how hard it was to pick up the sport. And the snow is sparkly.
I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.
Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It’s like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That’s some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.
I love skiing.
Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.
I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
Cycling’s primarily a pushing motion, and skiing is more pulling, so it kind of balances out the body.
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played – skiing, baseball, fishing – there is no greater example than golf, because you’re playing against yourself and nature.
Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn’t a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends.
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