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.

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

For a happy and health life, get the answers to these questions in this order: Where, Who, Why, What and How to be you.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble

We smile but I want more. I want her to hug me.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.

I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.