I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most of my meals while watching Netflix. It's like my companion.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.