Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.

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.

Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.

Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Cajun stomp?" "You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself.

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.