I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

I think its good to stimulate your mind.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.