Downhill Racing Quotes

Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.

I'm a longboard guy.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.

My best event is Super-G. I'm competitive in all my events, but Super-G has been most consistent for me.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

For me, it really just feels calm. When you're going fast on a downhill course, it's typically where it's wide open. I think it's kind of like driving a car. If you're going really fast and it's straight, everything seems to slow down. In general, racing downhill involves bigger turns and everything sort of slows down and you have a lot of time to think.

I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call me that.

If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote.

I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

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 like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.