Great waterskiing quotes

[Jody_Seal]

 

[Mateo_Vargas]

Mike probably came up with that quote after he came to from this one.

 

[lhoover]

Words of wisdom from the great Ken White. "We pull in the shower, but we lean on the rope."

[MuskokaKy]

I was hoping @The_MS would grace us with a one liner! I know he's got more than a few stored away.

[Taperflex]

At the Masters sometime in the late '70's, Kris LaPoint once told me " I pull my guts out across the wake and just get around the buoy the best I can". I've taken this to heart, just ask my ski partners...

[thager]

@The_MS once said, "Shut Up and Ski!"

[VONMAN]

"If you drop your hip, you must commit"

[The_MS]

“I was in that pass right up until I fell”

[VONMAN]

"Slow down to go fast"

[thager]

"Less is More."

[The_MS]

Someone needs to post the video, it’s classic

[VONMAN]

"It's all in the reflexes"

[UWSkier]

That was going great right up until it wasn't.

[ColeGiacopuzzi]

An endless battle of refining your craft.

[brooks]

[JackQ]

Bob LaPoint, "Turn hard, but pull harder"

[6balls]

From CP to me:

 

"I love your intensity, but you don't have to be 90 degrees to the boat at ALL times"

 

From @MS:

 

"I just need to get back on a Monza"

 

 

[Rednucleus]

"Just one more ball ..."

[teammalibu]

Stay low long!

[teammalibu]

Skiing with KLP one time and after a massive OTF that landed me on shore the boat driver brought Kris up next to me and all he had to say was

“Is that typical?”

[ForrestGump]

"Just don't let go." -Joe Darwin

[rawly]

“ when all is said and done , more is said than done “

 

We think and talk about this sport for hours , but forget most of it in the less than half minute that we need it , at least most of us.

[B_S]

When skiing glass "I fell because the water's too dang slippery".

[markn]

Sking with Chris Parrish several years ago and one skier's opener was 22 off. I asked Chris when was the last time he started at 22 off. He said, "When I was 6".

[rogerw]

during a jump wipeout - "upside down and waiting for the pain"

[ral]

For new skis, I always remember a comment made by my late buddy Carlitos Chicharro, an outstanding skier and an even better person:

 

"a new ski will feel better than anything you have tried before, will look like the one that will take you to the next level... until the ski realizes who is riding it..."

[ski6jones]

"It's the best ski I've ever ridden, until I paid for it." - Me

[Luzz]

"If you don't give 120% when you cut and pass, how do you expect to give 100% when you jump?" – Andrea Alessi

[Hockdog]

After I executed an epic OTF behind a buddy's boat, he circles around to pick me up and his wakeboarder son stands up in the boat and hollers "Dude! That was hectic!!

That was 20 years ago, we still repeat it.......

[andjules]

When he was done instructing and idling away, my coach always said (deadpan): "ok, now you follow me".

[fu_man]

Lucky Lowe on teaching how to time up the gates:

"Andy Mapple told me you watch the tow bar go through the gates cuz that's the same on every boat."

A few passes later, Joel is in the water trying to clarify something.

"Yes, but I said ANDY MAPPLE told me this........He could have been lying to me!"

[teammalibu]

@ForrestGump JD told Kolby one time if you let go one more time your swimming back! So the next pass he didn’t let go, ate the handle and almost ended up st the ER!

[AKShortline]

I ran sort of a rough opening pass last year at Regionals. Greg Badal was the driver, he idled up to me and said "What the f___ was that?"

[ScarletArrow]

The year that @SkiKolb got his Linsfranc injury, he always told the story of his injury, "I was skiing 39off up the line when I fell at 2 ball at 35off."

 

Wait... you were skiing 39off, and you fell at 35?

 

Now every time someone blows a pass or misses an opener and we have to later explain what happened we begin the story with, "I was skiing 39off up the line and I fell at [insert buoy and line length].

 

It's quite comical if I miss my opener at 15off.

 

In fairness to @SkiKolb I don't think anyone really knows what the actual line length was - the story has just taken on a life of its own. And you know the saying, "never let the facts get in the way of a good story".

[6balls]

Lucky: "Did I tell you to ski like that?"

Jim: "No"

Lucky: "Then what the hell are you doin?"

 

Lucky: "If you can't win, why are you here?"

 

CP: "Dude, your brother is a freak of nature!"

 

Wade: "I want you to sit on the ball on your onside"

 

Jodie: "Do you boys fancy a tittie bar?"

 

JP McCormick: "Do y'all like both kinds of music, country AND western?" only later to suggest we hit "Club Squeeze" which was, well, I won't go there but let's say we midwesterners didn't fit in well.

 

[75Tique]

 

[lpskier]

Young kid at McCormack Ski School circa 1971 in bunk room after lights out, inquiring of a slightly drunk 20 something German skier who just came in from a night on the town:

 

Kid: So Hans Willi, what happens if you try to have sex with a girl when you are drunk?

 

HW: Agh, you get slack in the rope!

[A_B]

A skier in our old club would often say “go ahead and shorten it. I would have made that pass if I would have gotten around 5 ball okay”.

 

That skier is no longer with us and several times a year that will be said by any of us and we all say the spirit of Elwood lives on!

 

Another gem: “I am seeing some things that I find very disturbing”.

 

 

[VONMAN]

"If he doesn't keep his shoulders back, we are looking at a yard sale"