I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

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.

Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.