I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

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.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.