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I've been myself my whole life.
It's important for me to live my life honestly.
I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.
Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.
I like to keep my private life private for the most part.
If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.
It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.
I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.
One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.
Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.
The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.
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?
Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.
It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
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.
I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.
People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.
I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?
When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.
If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
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.
I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.
I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.
I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.
I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive.
That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.
My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.
There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.
People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.
At the end of the day, you have to make sure you're at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you. That's hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.