It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

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.

To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.

Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain.

Time management is about life management.

Sticking a straw up your butt won't get rid of the constipation.

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.