The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

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.

The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life as long as you can? No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

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.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

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?