Lindsey Vonn

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I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
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Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
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It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.
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I always ate healthy, but it wasn't scientific. Now it's a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don't get tired after a meal. It does take a very detailed meal plan.
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I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.
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If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
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In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.
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I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.
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Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
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Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.
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I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.
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When you fall, get right back up.
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I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
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When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
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You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.
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The thing is I have no ACL. So unless I get surgery, there's nothing really magical that I can do that's going to make it better. I just can get my leg stronger, my muscle stronger and try and support it a little more. But that has a small impact. My knee is loose, and it's not stable, and that's the way it's going to be from here on out.
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It's hard to give tips to skiers if I don't know how they ski, but I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.
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Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.
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For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.
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I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.
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Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.
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The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
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I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.
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You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.
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Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.
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Setbacks motivate me.
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I find folding laundry very relaxing.
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I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.
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I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
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My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.
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There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!
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My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.
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I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
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I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.
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I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing.
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I snack on fruit and nuts. In the middle of my long workouts, I'll have a protein shake.
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I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early.
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I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.
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Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
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I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!
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A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.
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When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
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I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
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It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.
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I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.
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I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.
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Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
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Everyone knows marriage is tough.
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When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.
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There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.
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