I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

Driving yourself crazy is faster than walking.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

Information Overload = "information pollution"

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.