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.

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.

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.

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.

The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.