Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

I thrive in competition. It feels good to improve timings and create records.

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.

I'm simply trying to go as far as I can go in racing.

Being favorite counts for nothing. I am focusing on doing the best time of my life, whether or not it's the best in history or the best in the competition.

I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

Every single time you compete, I don't care what it is, you want to perform the best you can, and I feel like I'm doing that.

I do not chase after the records.

Everybody runs, but only one wins first prize. So, run your race in such a way as to win.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

You have to know how to score.

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

I must use Ferrari to the maximum. My priority is to get results. Then we will see what happens.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.