Adversity creates heroes.

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun!

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.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own, baby.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

When you're jumping so high for something so far up in the sky, you have to know that there is definitely someone there who can catch you, someone who knows how to catch you and when.

Life isn't about the years you lived. It is about how you lived.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process.