Craig Kelly Quotes

• All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.

  Craig Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Done, Really

• What you do once you’re beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

  Craig Kelly

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  Tags in Services, Local

• While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who’s out there just for the experience.

  Craig Kelly

  Topics in Experience, Respect

  Tags in Highest, Extreme

• So I’ve been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I’m glad I’m getting pushed out there farther.

  Craig Kelly

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Realizing, Really, Getting

• Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since ’87. I’ve been riding for both of them.

  Craig Kelly

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  Tags in Main, Sponsor

• My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding.

  Craig Kelly

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Independent, Better

• I’ve always been into powder, that’s what I like riding, and now you’ve got to go farther to get it.

  Craig Kelly

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  Tags in Riding, Always

• I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

  Craig Kelly

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  Tags in Moment, Suffer

• For Oakley, I’m basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it’s both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on.

  Craig Kelly

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  Tags in Great, Kind, Continue

Craig Kelly (9)

Birth:	1st April, 1966
Death:	20th January, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Snowboarder

About

Craig Kelly was born in Granite City, Madison County, Illinois. He  was an American professional snowboarder. Kelly is known as the 'Godfather of Freeriding'; Terje Håkonsen called Kelly the best snowboarder of all time. Over his 15-year professional career, he won 4 world championships and 3 U.S. championships; he won the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom snowboarding competition in 1988, 1991, and 1993. Craig died on 20 January 2003 near Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada in an avalanche which trapped 8 people and killed 6 others.

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Births

• 1891 - Walther Bothe
• 1824 - William Wilkie Collins
• 1934 - Alexandra Ripley
• 1944 - Terry Brooks
• 1888 - Richard Courant

Deaths

• 1948 - Kurt Schwitters
• 1983 - Tom McCall
• 1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford
• 1958 - Walter Elliot
• 2009 - Richard John Neuhaus