Ligety Ski Quotes & Sayings

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer. — Ted Ligety

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. — Rihanna

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too. — T. Cooper

I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies. — Ted Ligety

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well. — William S. Burroughs

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. — Ted Ligety

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. — Ted Ligety

When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard. — Ted Ligety

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win. — Ted Ligety

Disdainful of fur and fretful, privately, about the cost of his buttons, Jerott Blyth sat like the born horseman he was, and watched discreetly for trouble. — Dorothy Dunnett

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny. — Ted Ligety

Unlike other religions in the world the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. It may broadly be described as a way of life and nothing more. — Deepak Chopra

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time. — Ted Ligety

In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. — Zhang Xin

Life is about risks: driving is a risk, marriage is a risk, but we still do them, right? — Omar Al Busaidy

I don't do ski racing to be famous. — Ted Ligety