It's important for me to live my life honestly.
My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.
From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.
Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
"Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs."
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