Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

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.

All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.

You win the fight by fighting.

I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi Arabia where men are men, and women are cattle.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.