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?

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

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

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make.

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