Quotes about Downhill

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day. Votes: 4

Downhill's the future of the sport. Cross-country's not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, I can do that. America likes to see people crash. Votes: 3

Golf is a better game played downhill. Votes: 2

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill. Votes: 2

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. Votes: 2

You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier. Votes: 2

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs. Votes: 2

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. Votes: 2

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there. Votes: 2

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing. Votes: 2

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill. Votes: 2

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point. Votes: 2

There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. Votes: 2

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree. Votes: 2

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then. Votes: 2

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know. Votes: 2

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being. Votes: 2

I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling. Votes: 2

Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill. Votes: 2

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them. Votes: 2

To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there. Votes: 2

Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break. Votes: 2

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. Votes: 2

Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease. Votes: 2

I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people. Votes: 2

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones. Votes: 2

I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map. Votes: 2

Uphill, downhill, I like that. Votes: 1

Coasting only takes you downhill. Votes: 0

The only way to coast is downhill. Votes: 0

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts. Votes: 0

I can still chase women, only downhill Votes: 0

The MS really started going downhill in 1990. Votes: 0

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill. Votes: 0

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill. Votes: 0

You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts. Votes: 0

Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me. Votes: 0

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill. Votes: 0

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking. Votes: 0

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.... Votes: 0

Never get satisfied. The minute you stop trying, you go downhill. Votes: 0

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill. Votes: 0

The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast. Votes: 0

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment Votes: 0

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill! Votes: 0

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill. Votes: 0

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them. Votes: 0

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top. Votes: 0

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill. Votes: 0

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill. Votes: 0

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on. Votes: 0

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since. Votes: 0

Hiking up a hill is an ass kicker, going downhill is a little easier. Votes: 0

I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill. Votes: 0

I like to hit it downhill, thats the way I was taught to run. Votes: 0

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them. Votes: 0

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. Votes: 0

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt. Votes: 0

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. Votes: 0

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising. Votes: 0

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill. Votes: 0

Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there. Votes: 0

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. Votes: 0

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way. Votes: 0

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that. Votes: 0

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance. Votes: 0

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way. Votes: 0

Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense Votes: 0

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! Votes: 0

Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again. Votes: 0

About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly. Votes: 0

Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation. Votes: 0

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell. Votes: 0

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill. Votes: 0

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest. Votes: 0

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny. Votes: 0

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity. Votes: 0

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash. Votes: 0

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. Votes: 0

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. Votes: 0

I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake. Votes: 0

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent. Votes: 0

The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late. Votes: 0

By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology." Votes: 0

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder. Votes: 0

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting. Votes: 0

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect... Votes: 0

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on. Votes: 0

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises. Votes: 0

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself. Votes: 0

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics. Votes: 0

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth. Votes: 0

Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress. Votes: 0