Hermann Maier Quotes

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

I still have more to fight for in the coming years.

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.

I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.