Lindsey Vonn Quotes
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Life changes very quickly in a very positive way if you let it.
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My mom is positive and optimistic.
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Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.
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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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I want to ski as long as I can.
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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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Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn't stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.
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Just in general, staying healthy and active is important.
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I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.
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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've been to a lot of photo shoots, and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.
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Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%.
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Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.
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I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.
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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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I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.
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I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.
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I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.
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I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
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I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
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I want to show America who I am and inspire young kids.
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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 down, just get up again.
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The Olympics were the most pressure I've ever felt.