Hermann Maier Quotes

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

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

Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.

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

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.

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

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.

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

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

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.