Max Gartner Quotations

Whenever racers ski a course for the first time, the strategy is to focus on the line and to take the first run as an opportunity to evaluate how the mountain reacts.

We still have medal potential but we've lost two of them now. Anyway, we need to move on. I am confident in the coaching staff. We all need to be very calm.

We're trying to simulate a lot what the load will be on snow. His biggest asset is his amazing feel on snow. That's why he gets such good speed. But if you have pain, you just tighten up a little and that could hurt that feeling. ... You want to go into your biggest event of the year 100 per cent healthy, that's for sure.

With better support you get results and with one or two results it starts to snowball.

Every time he puts weight on the front of the ski boot, it hurts.

He has a boot top contusion and is day-to-day.

I expect she is going to leave Italy pretty soon. You usually need six months after the surgery to fully recover.

I wish we could bring home some hardware, but you have to look deeper than that. You can have one medal and the rest be a disaster and people would say you're doing good. But I like where we're headed.

All three have exceptional attitudes and work ethic. They need more concrete results. They need to compete more against our national athletes.

It just shows that with our program we are contenders for a lot of events right now. In almost every event we have a challenger. A couple of hundredths of a second here and there and we could have walked away with a bunch of medals.