Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.