My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

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.

Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!

We need to START buying our KIDS more ($00.50) BOOKS and less ($50.00) Video-Games

When you are wondering how do you go on? The better question is, how do you NOT go on?

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die.

He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been.