I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.

You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.

As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.