When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

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.

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

I don’t like San Francisco. I love it!

Why not give Christianity a trial?

If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.