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.

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 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.

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.

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.

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments.

Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

Be the one to stand out in the crowd.

If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.