“I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.”

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.

At the end of the day, you have to make sure you’re at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they’ll figure out I’ve got millions, but hopefully they’ll have the values to say, ‘So what?

I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.

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?

Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.

There’s an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.

I couldn’t be happier with where my life’s at right now.

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.

Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

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.

The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.

One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.

If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.

Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.

I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.