My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

I find folding laundry very relaxing.

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.

Nothing is determined by fate. We create our own fate.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

My government will respect the will of the people.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.