I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.

When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.

Mascara is my go-to product before stepping out of the house.

There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.