Ted Ligety
I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.Collection: Independence
My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.
I don't do ski racing to be famous.
I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.
I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.
I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.
I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.Collection: Fun
You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got.Collection: Starting
One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.Collection: Change
Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your skis carve unless you’re going down the hill leaning forward, and that puts you in a good athletic position to do whatever you want to do on your skis—make quick turns, make long turns, or absorb bumps.Collection: Long
I was skiing fast in training, but that really doesn't count for anything until you actually do it in a race. So to finally get to prove how fast you are skiing is an added bonus that goes along with winning the first race of the year. Any race win is a good win. I don't really care where it is. I've been on the podium a bunch of times here, but it's always good for your confidence to start off the year with a victory.Collection: Winning
It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.Collection: Olympics