“At the Cardiff World Cup I really would like to make the final. The favorites are still Peter, Daniele or Vavra, but I will try to do my best in order to be closest as possible to these athletes.”

I’m calm and focused and I can’t wait for the biggest sport event in the World to begin.

Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity, members of the ICF, my own National Olympic Committee, friends and athletes from the Slalom Community.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order, and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.