I don’t often walk into a situation feeling nervous, and I did.

Ski racing is undoubtedly one of the finest of sports, certainly one of the most exacting as a test of courage and skill.

Without some blues, ain’t nothin’ happening. If you don’t dig the blues, you got a hole in your soul.

People say you’re just an athlete, like, stick to your job, shut up about politics, but politics affect us all.

The truth is, I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

And then something happened when I was in Venice. I was there with my sister and my mom and my dad, and during that ovation, I saw them standing behind me, and I saw my agent, whom I've known for ten years now, and I kind of looked around, and I realized I was exactly where I was supposed to be my whole life. And every day since making that movie, in this industry I've felt a kind of great calm that I'm in the right place, I'm meant to be here.

If you weren't embarrassed from yesterday, then don't come into this gym. You're not needed or wanted here. We need the mindset to shift, because that was embarrassing.

The Smithsonian has always been able to rise above the political moment. I don’t see anything that stops that process.