The literature has become too vast to comprehend. . . It is. . . difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. . . . There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data. . . gossip.
I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.
At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.
When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?
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.
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.
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.
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.