Hermann Maier Quotes (67 Quotes)

I had a perfect setup with my skis for me. I am very satisfied. I had a great start to the season, winning the giant slalom and super-G and now the downhill. This is perfect timing. It was important to win here. It is a demanding and high-speed course and for my downhill confidence it was very important.

I was very glad to be able to take part in these Olympic Games, and I'm even happier to win a silver medal.

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.

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.

After the race, Maier praised the skier he had passed on the career list, Alberto Tomba of Italy. He was a great skier, ... He was a perfect skier.

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

Benji still has a lot in front of him and I have to try hard to stay with him. But I'll watch him and if he slows down I'll catch him.

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

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

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

I should have been more relaxed. I was very tight. I was very, very close to the victory and this makes me a little sad.

It's a great feeling to be back at my second Olympics. To be here was my big goal. Now to win a medal is special to me. If you have success after you're injured, it's a wonderful feeling. It's wonderful to me to have fun with skiing and then to have big moments. It's very nice.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

Coming into the race I really had no idea how I would do and I certainly never thought that I could win again on such a difficult course.

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

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

I hope that when the season really gets going in north America everything will be perfect again.

There are three downhill races left, so I'm pretty busy in the coming week, remaining focused. Fortunately, ski racing is still fun for me.

It was special for me-a lot of for my fan club there, more than a thousand people. It's very important for me to win this race, especially in Austria.

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

I can be happy with second place because it is always good to be on the podium but I am totally unhappy with the way I raced,

I just found it overpowering - I guess the tension at the start of the season is a lot more than you feel later on. It's also been five years since I last won a giant slalom so I was just overfilled with joy.

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

That's not nice. It's not the perfect language. Maybe I'm pissed a little bit.

Of course I am satisfied but then I missed gold twice with such narrow margins.

If it's possible to do some charity, I'm always there, ... A lot of people, they are thinking that only in other countries there are problems, but we have people in need in Austria, too.

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

I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.

I go into this week and the Olympics feeling good and sure of myself.

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

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

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

There is still room for improvement. I am hoping to be better for tomorrow.

To be on the podium is already a big achievement. But it's incredible to win this race.

It was fantastic in this weather condition. The snow is fantastic.

Yesterday, I thought two victories would be good. Now I have it, so I'm happy.

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

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

That was truly brutal today. I haven't been challenged by a course like that in a long, long time. I was constantly at my limit. I was already tired by the second interval (midway point). It was unbelievable.

It's unbelievable -- a medal in GS was so unexpected. Where I made the difference was in the first leg in the upper part and middle part, I really gave everything in the second run. But I'm still surprised by this.

This is a big joy for me. I was sitting in second place and watching Bode's run and I thought to myself second place will be great. Then I saw his time was in red and I knew I had won. I flipped out.

The training is going very, very well. I think I've got just the right formula. At the present time, I'm working mostly on the thighs.

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

It's a fantastic win. It's always magic to win here in front of this crowd and on a course that holds so much energy and vibes.

Well it was a very difficult track and a very difficult competition, and I'm glad that I got the silver medal.

I never thought I could win again here on such a difficult course, which is why it means so much to me. I was not sure about coming here, how well I'd be skiing and able to handle it.