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

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

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.

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.

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.