People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.
— Lindsey Vonn
Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.
I've been to a lot of photo shoots, and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.
I really like figure skating.
Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.
Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
I want to show America who I am and inspire young kids.
An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.
Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain.
Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.
Everyone knows marriage is tough.
I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.
I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.
I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.
I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.
Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.
The thing is I have no ACL. So unless I get surgery, there's nothing really magical that I can do that's going to make it better. I just can get my leg stronger, my muscle stronger and try and support it a little more. But that has a small impact. My knee is loose, and it's not stable, and that's the way it's going to be from here on out.
I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.
Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.
For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.
I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.
I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.
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.
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.
In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.
If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.
In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.
My mom is positive and optimistic.
I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.
I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.
You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.
For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.
It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.
I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.
It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.
When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!
It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.
