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

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.

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

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.

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.