Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

quote by Dave Barry
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There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

quote by Paul Parker
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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.

quote by Steve Largent
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Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

quote by Spalding Gray
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My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

quote by Hermann Maier
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It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

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I can ski out of my back door.

quote by Merlin Olsen
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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.

quote by Larry David
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Amazing Sights of Mt.Buller(near Aussie Melbourne))

As we reached the Horse Hill
amazing sights of snow-falls,
our searching eyes, filled.
The old and the kids
slide down in snowboards
on a small stretch of slopes.
Wonderful feasts of Nature
we enjoyed at Mt.Buller.
From the bottom of the snow-clad vale
I moved up in my snow walking boots.
In that awesome sunny day
my boots sank a bit in some places.
But the boys give the snow a good boot
catch the ice crystals and shoot them off.

Icicles hang from the roof-tops
of the restaurants, clinics and sheds.
On the branches of dead trees
snowy pythons are lying on them.
The children practise skiing

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poem by Rajendran Muthiah
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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.

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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.

quote by David Hyde Pierce
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I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

quote by Roger Moore
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Skiing

Why is it I can't ski?
When all that my instructor keeps saying is ‘benz za knees'
I ‘benz za knees' I hold my poles
Hoping this will help me go faster and not slow
Now the only thing that worries me that I know
Are my skis do not go where I want them to go
My knees are bent, I'm in the groove
I try to turn but the skis don't move
As I hold my breath I imagine what happens next
Either I go round this bend or crash and break my neck
Somehow I make it with just a snow flake to spare
Now I can breathe again - the fresh mountain air
But no sooner had I drawn my breath and unclenched my teeth
I notice my skis are far too wide underneath
With my eyes bouncing up and down like demented fleas
I try to focus but my mind feels as though it has turned to cheese
It's not looking good I must say
Compared to this morning I thought it'll turn out to be a perfect day
Not so - and here it must end
Did I make it or go straight and miss the bend?

poem by JeanJacques Evendon
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Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

quote by Steven Wright
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

quote by Steven Wright
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For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

quote by Jean-Marie Messier
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Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.

quote by John Bauer
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

quote by Dave Barry
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For an Earth-Landing

the sky sinks its blue teeth
into the mountains.

Rising on pure will

(the lurch & lift-off,
the sudden swing
into wide, white snow),

I encourage the cable.

Past the wind
& crossed tips of my skis
& the mauve shadows of pines
& the spoor of bears
& deer,

I speak to my fear,

rising, riding,

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poem by Erica Jong
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That Avalanche Has Advanced

Depict me as you wish.
I am not the one who issued,
The blindfolds and the skis...
You speed down the slopes,
To deceive you with hopes.

I came to warn you,
Of an impending avalanche.
I was the one who came brave enough...
To insist you were heading towards darkness.
And not a party to drink with song and dance.

But since I am not a skier,
You laughed at me and took the chance.
And in the midst of your 'glee'...
That avalanche has advanced!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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