Snowboarding Quotes

“The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.”
― Dave Barry

“Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.”
― Amit Ray

“The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.”
― Mark Twight, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber

“Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.”
― Mark Twight, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber

“Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.”
― Mark Twight, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber

“...Following the bird you lay into a deep turn in the steepening descent. It [the snow] is super soft, bottomless and amazingly light, yet supportive. It feels like something in between floating on top, and within the top of a deep-pile carpet as you link turn after turn down the open glacier. Each side of you are fellow riders, though not too close, whooping with exhilaration and flying down, down towards the valley below. The pitch gets steeper and the slope widens out, with seemingly endless space to the sides and an untracked oblivion ahead and beneath you. Each turn is delicious softness; you can almost feel every snow crystal reacting with the base of your skis. Those skis feel like extensions of your feet, and you connect with the mountain through a portal link created by the snowpack, as the spray from the turn hangs in the air behind you...”
― Steve Baldwin, Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis

“Why thank you, little lady,' Dan answers, sounding more like John Wayne than me. He flexes his muscles. 'Let me strap on my manly board and show you what I can really do.”
― Leslea Wahl, The Perfect Blindside

“I turn to look at Jake. “You’re running from a bunch of eight-year-olds?”
The rambunctious groups starts to point at the library and clamors toward the door, ready to enter.
Jake looks at me. “They scare me. Can you please help me out?”
― Leslea Wahl, The Perfect Blindside

“You go up into the mountains empty, even with no lunch, you come home full.”
― Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him – An Inspiring Biography of World Champion Snowboarder Craig Kelly and the 2003 Durrand Glacier Tragedy

“It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying.”
― Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him – An Inspiring Biography of World Champion Snowboarder Craig Kelly and the 2003 Durrand Glacier Tragedy

“I stopped snowboarding as I started to recognize symptoms that corresponded with radiation sickness when at high altitude ski resorts.”
― Steven Magee

“Falling in love with Stefan was all at once- it was all or nothing and fast like driving a car at 100 mph down a highway. Falling in love with Paul was different; it was slow and relaxed, almost like floating on the surface of the water.”
― T.S. Krupa, On the Edge

“Behind every great athlete is an even stronger mother,”
― T.S. Krupa, On the Edge

“You don't have to let it go...just let it come to you. You know the basics...you know the snow...so trust yourself.”
― T.S. Krupa, On the Edge

“You go up into the mountains empty, even ith no lunch, you come home full.”
― Eric Blehm

“I'm honestly not that concerned with what's modern, or what's up-to-date, or what's cool, stylish... The smile after a good run, to me, is all I need to know about snowboarding.
-Craig Kelly”
― Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him – An Inspiring Biography of World Champion Snowboarder Craig Kelly and the 2003 Durrand Glacier Tragedy

“He craved profound silence, the raw, authentic challenge of the mountains, the quiet truth of nature, a stark contrast to the performative chaos he'd left behind.”
― Lehkani Namah