“I’m too old for this shit.”

“Classic acute porcine paralysis.” Bernadette Schild explains her weaker performance in the first slalom run in Zagreb.

“I thought to myself, why am I on the internet again? I’m too old for this shit.” Lindsey Vonn after her fall in the World Cup Super-G.

“If someone breaks in, I hope for some respect. They can steal everything from me, but they should leave the chamois behind.” Last year’s Kitzbühel winner Thomas Dreßen about the winner's trophy and potential burglars.

“The first time in the history of Kitzbühel that only 50 percent of the spectators are drunk and not 90 percent still have residual alcohol on Sunday.” Felix Neureuther in response to the weather-related postponement of the Kitzbühel Slalom from Saturday to Sunday.

Ski star Felix Neureuther. © APA / EXPA/JOHANN GRODER

“I think he has overcome his dip in form.” The dry comment from Marco Black about Marcel's Hirscher Schladming victory with two best times after finishing third and second in Wengen and Kitzbühel.

“My body is broken, beyond repair and will not allow me to have the final season I dreamed of.” Vonn gives up the hunt to beat Ingemar Stenmark's World Cup victory record.

“They must have all been very small Swiss women.” Ramona Siebenhofer about timing failures on the descent in Crans-Montana exclusively for four Swiss women because photocells were allegedly mounted too high.

“It doesn’t matter what the conditions are. You have to be good at everything, you should even be good at water skiing.” Marcel Hirscher Disappointed after finishing sixth in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora.

“It’s not a career change, it’s not a job change – it’s a life that you end overnight.” Hirscher in his resignation speech.

“I would prefer a combination of downhill skiing and snowboarding slalom.” Snowboarder Ester Ledecka after her downhill ski victory in Lake Louise about her favorite combination variant.

“I ended up in popular sports. I can now understand everyone who says I enjoy running. It used to be a horror for me.” Hirscher a good three months after his resignation.

“It just so happens that things are easier for us in dictatorships. From a business perspective, I say: I only want to go to dictatorships, I don't want to argue with environmentalists." FIS President Gian Franco Kasper in an interview in the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger.

“What does dictatorship mean? It can also be a village king who makes everything easier.” FIS President Kasper tries to put his dictatorship claim into perspective.

“We love racing athlete against athlete. Today it was athlete against weather.” Der Gaiser Christoph Innerhofer criticizes unequal conditions for departure.

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“I’m too old for this shit.”

The year 2019 not only brought numerous anecdotes in skiing, but also many amusing sayings. SportNews presents the best.

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