"I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top."

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"I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top."

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"I still have more to fight for in the coming years."

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"My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control."

Attitude

"As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career."

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"When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race."

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"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."

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"There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter."

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"If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb."

"Ambition is a stairway that never ends."

"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."

"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."

"No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail."

"Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing."

"When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to submit to your voice."

"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."

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"I still have more to fight for in the coming years."

"My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control."

"As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career."

"When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race."

"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."

"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year."

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"This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again."

"One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now."

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