140 Best Ski Quotes to Make You Want to Hit the Slopes!

Skiing is more than a sport, it is a way of life.

A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom.

– Warren Miller

Here In The Deep Powder Snow, You Don’t Hear Yourself Ski. You Don’t Hear Your Long Turns Or Short Turns. You Float. The Faster You Go, The Better. The Less You Struggle, The Better. You Move Through The Deep, Light Snow, Through The Deep Snow With Some Crust On It, Through The Deep Snow With Some Wind In It.

– Jacques Labrie

You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

– Fridtjof Nansen

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke, the glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

– Tim Cahill

If you don’t do it this year, you will be one year older when you do.

– Warren Miller, legendary filmmaker who captured the thrill and beauty of skiing and snowboarding for over six decades

A pair of skis are the ultimate transportation to freedom.

– Warren Miller

I don’t know if it’s just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

– Picabo Street, former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it’s a complete physical expression of freedom.

– Robert Redford, American actor and filmmaker

When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, ‘Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.’ I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning, I was up on the mountain, and I was good.

– Lindsey Vonn, winner of four World Cup overall titles and 82 World Cup races

A person should have wings to carry them where their dreams go, but sometimes a pair of skis makes a good substitute.

– Hans Gmoser, a founder of modern mountaineering in Canada

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It’s to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

– Seth Godin, author and former dot com business executive

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you’re proud of, and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

– Bode Miller, the most successful male American alpine ski racer of our time

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It’s life, fully lived, a life lived in a blaze of reality.

– Dolores LaChapelle, mountaineer, skier, T’ai chi teacher and independent scholar

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

– Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman

There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder snow. It gives a supreme feeling of freedom, mobility. A great sense of flying, moving anywhere in a great white paradise.

– Hans Gmoser

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.

– David Hyde Pierce, American actor and director

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism, way more pleasurable – and fun – than alpine climbing.

– Michael Kennedy, American lawyer, businessman, and activist who sadly passed away from a skiing accident

I realize how fortunate I am to have been able to make a life and career out of skiing.

– Gus Kenworthy, a British-American former freestyle skier, actor, and YouTube

I don’t put anything in front of ski racing and sports seriously.

– Bode Miller

Skiing is a battle against yourself, always to the frontiers of the impossible. But most of all, it must give you pleasure. It is not an obligation but a joy.

– Jean-Claude Killy, a French former World Cup alpine ski racer

When I ski a downhill race, I feel more like an astronaut than an athlete. One wrong move, and I’m toast.

– Bode Miller

It’s better to go skiing and think of God than to go to church and think of sport.

– Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, humanitarian, and diplomat who led daring expeditions to the Arctic

There is no such thing as too much snow.

– Doug Coombs, an American alpine skier and mountaineer

Skiing is the best way in the world to waste time.

– Glen Plake, a US National Ski Hall of Fame skier

Relax and cruise. This isn’t a fight, it’s a dance, and the mountain always leads.

– Jim Bowden, extreme skier

Gotta use your brain, it’s the most important part of your equipment.

– Kevin Andres, American athlete

I just love to be on my skis, skiing with my friends, just going out into the mountains and being in nature and skiing some powder. That’s the best thing.

– Candide Thovex,  a French professional skier, filmmaker and entrepreneur

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

– Oprah Winfrey, American business woman and talk-show host

White lips, pale face, breathing in the snowflakes.

– Ed Sheeran, British musician

Funny Ski Quotes and Ski Puns

Not all ski quotes are serious! Sometimes, ski quotes can be quite humorous – here are some of our favorites!

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

– Lord Mancroft, British politician and businessman

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars’ worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

– P.J. O’Rourke, American political satirist and journalist

Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

– Erma Bombeck, American humorist

There are only four things you can do on skis. Turn right, turn left, go straight, or sell them.

– Warren Miller

The problem with winter sports is that, follow me closely here, they generally take place in winter.

– Dave Barry, American Pulitzer-winning humorist

If you’re looking for a vacation concept that combines the elements of outdoor fun with the element of potentially knocking down a tree with your face, you can’t do better than skiing.

– Dave Barry

If you want to get a good taste of powder, first you have to eat some.

– Bob Barnes, Ski and Ride School Director

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons – you really can choose to stop.

– Nigel Warburton, British philosopher

Après-Ski Quotes

Anyone who has been skiing knows that the après-ski is half the fun! Here are some of the best après-ski quotes and captions that truly capture the fun.

First Time Skiing Quotes

A first time ski trip can be quite daunting, with lots of unknowns about what you’ll see and what might happen, but that’s all part of the fun! Check out these quotes specifically for first time skiers that offer some guidance on what you can expect. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll want to go every season!

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don’t fall at least 10 times, then you’re not skiing hard enough.

– Guy Fieri, Celebrity chef

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

– Dave Barry

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it’s a really bad one. But sometimes it’s not so bad.

– Lindsey Vonn

Cross Country Skiing Quotes

Quite simply, cross country skiing is a form of skiing that requires skiers to use their sheer strength, skis and poles to move across the snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or any other form of assistance. Definitely a display of endurance! If cross country skiing is your thing, you might want to check out these quotes.

Cross-country skiing is easy if you live in a small country.

– Steven Wright, stand-up comedian

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

– Diane Ackerman, poet and essayist

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.

– Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and author

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level… I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling… things that require stamina, not finesse.

– Neil Peart, legendary drummer and lyricist

The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet, the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone. The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains.

– Jeremy Jones, professional snowboarder

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

– Dave Barry

Snowboarding is skateboarding without the wheels, just on snow.

– Gza, rapper and songwriter

When you think about it, we’re strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It’s pretty intense.

– Shaun White, skateboarder

If you eat the same cereal every day it’s gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

– Shaun White

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

– Shaun White

I’ve reached my goal with snowboarding.

– Shaun White

Snowboarding is about having fun, pushing one another creatively, and not putting anyone down along the way.

– Hannah Teter, Olympic champion snowboarder

Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

– Lucy Walker, director

There’s no blueprint to snowboarding, you know? You can really make your own mark.

– Sage Kotsenburg, Olympic gold medal snowboarder

I’m just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.

– Cameron Richardson, producer, actress and model

With a snowboard on your feet, the sky is the limit.

– Jeremy Jones, professional snowboarder and founder of Jones Snowboards