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Sailing Quotes

I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven’t been able to get back. And now I’m not sure if I ever will.

– Hannah Mills

I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.

– Henrik Fisker

When I work, I work very hard. When I don’t work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

– Helmut Jahn

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you’re going to get.

– Hannah Mills

I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.

– Hannah Mills

I think becoming an actor because it’s a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it’s plain sailing for hereon in, then you’re kidding yourself.

– Hugh Dancy

I’ve kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I’ve had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone – and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

– James Spithill

In typical sailing races a long time ago, you’d come in and go out, and the first thing you’d do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink.

– James Spithill

When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

– Jochen Zeitz

I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

– Garrett Neff

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I’ve always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

– Bo Derek

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

– Amelia Earhart

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

– Craig Ferguson

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

– Bo Derek

If you’re showing people where it’s smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they’re either not terribly intelligent or they’re not doing something well.

– Christopher Guest

Sailing is a big outlet for me.

– Craig Venter

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

– Alexander Dale Oen

What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.

– Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

– Christopher Atkins

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I’m invited to sail.

– Philippe Petit

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

– George William Curtis

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

– Martin Ryle

E.B. White’s essays are the best things I’ve read about Maine – especially the one in which he’s not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

– Nicholson Baker

I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn’t want to go to university, so I thought I would wander around. I did a season skiing, a bit of sailing, typical spoilt brat stuff. I ended up in the Caribbean. I was having a blast.

– Marc Koska

My goal in sailing isn’t to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

– Dennis Conner

As long as I can remember, I’ve been writing – first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

– Dave Anderson

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

– Fritz Sauckel

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

– Ella Maillart

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

– Dennis Conner

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