Picabo Street Quotes
"I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me."
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(Related: Goal)
"I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns."
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"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby."
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(Related: Baby)
"I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with."
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(Related: Family, People, Learning, Talk)
"I've had to do that all my life because my energy is way, way overwhelming."
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(Related: Life, Energy)
"I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else."
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(Related: Nothing, Promise)
"A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions."
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(Related: Women, Emotions)
"It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done."
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(Related: Dreams, Life, Desire, Now, Rest, Want)
"My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone."
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(Related: Brother, Sun)
"Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to."
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(Related: Needs)
"One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth."
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(Related: Dreams, Life, Youth)
"That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want."
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(Related: Love, Want)
"The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image."
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(Related: Care)
"There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together."
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(Related: Family, Time, Work, Energy, Needs, Right)
"There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it."
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(Related: Bed, Want)
"We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural."
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"I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting."
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(Related: Focus, Losing, Ritual, Routine)
"I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me."
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(Related: Gold)
"I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it."
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(Related: Inspiration)
"I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids."
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(Related: Money, Kids, Ski)
"I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect."
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(Related: Ski)
"I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock."
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(Related: Competition)
"Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now."
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(Related: Friend, Now, October)
"But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun."
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(Related: Fun, Needs, Racing)
"Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself."
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(Related: Work, Energy)
"I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that."
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(Related: Home, Life, Dream, Chance, Kids, Living, Want)