Athlete

I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's the part I'm nervous about.

I'm not really seeing pressure as a negative.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

I've always wanted to do things as fast as possible.

Here's the thing. You can't get ten thousand hours of skiing. You spend so much time on the chairlift. My coach did a calculation of how many hours I've been on snow. We'd been overestimating. I think we came up with something like eleven total hours of skiing on snow a year. It's, like, seven minutes a day.

I rely on breakfast to give me a kickstart of energy in the morning, so I choose my foods accordingly.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

If I leave any legacy behind, it's just the idea, just the theory that you admit to your ambitions, and you don't let people tell you you're wrong to have those ambitions.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body.

I don't really have time or interest in doing a lot of the crazy things that some of my teenage peers do, mostly because I have such a hectic life that I don't need to add to that chaos by creating my own teenage drama like a lot of teenagers do.

My whole thing is simple, well-balanced meals. I have to say, though, that I really like dessert. I try not to eat dessert every day, but I'll have dessert every now and then.