It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.
When I saw (Raich) ski out I just couldn't believe what was happening.
I knew I could ski well. When I got to the bottom, I was surprised how far I was ahead. I was not surprised I was ahead.