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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.
Hermann Maier
Dangerous
Accidents
Lose
Too
Everything
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Because
Crash
Ski
Racing
Really
Many
Downhill
Activity
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.
Hermann Maier
You
Age
Training
Sometimes
Pressure
Before
Pain
Back
Everything
Fine
Knees
Put
Feel
Sure
Verify
Lot
Going
Body
Hard
Keep
Need
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.
Hermann Maier
Fight
Style
Would
Would-Be
Perfect
Could
Because
Wet
Snow
Quite
Icy
Hard
Moment
Downhill
Even
Harder
Soft
I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.
Hermann Maier
Happy
Group
Top
Having
Excelled
Belong
Champions
Here
I like to win. If I lose, I'm not very happy.
Hermann Maier
Happy
Win
Lose
Like
Very
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.
Hermann Maier
Win
Too Much
Lost
Too
Beating
Rivals
Because
Wanted
Them
Races
Much
I still have more to fight for in the coming years.
Hermann Maier
Fight
More
Still
Coming
Years
I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.
Hermann Maier
Time
Best
Will
Think
Some
Recover
Week
Take
Until
Well
Trained
Rhythm
Specialty
I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.
Hermann Maier
Great
Me
Gave
Final
Giant
Week
Part
Won
Japan
Momentum
Season
Last
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.
Hermann Maier
World
Win
Become
Healthy
Think
Setting
About
More
Records
Remain
Leading
New
Proud
Cup
Racer
Races
Much
World Cup
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.
Hermann Maier
Attitude
Myself
Pressure
Control
More
Put
Edges
Learned
Different
Ski
Racing
Less
Keep
Now
One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.
Hermann Maier
Me
Victory
More
More Or Less
Make
Difference
Less
Now
This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.
Hermann Maier
Time
Before
Took
Easier
Up
Stood
Crash
Again
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.
Hermann Maier
Fight
World
Win
Enter
Tour
Had
Badly
Reach
Cup
Child
Wanted
Race
Hard
Team
Each
World Cup
Compete
First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Love
First
Able
Spirit
Learn
To Love
Then
Body
Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?
John Banner
Better
Jews
Well
Than
Who
Play
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.
John Banner
Generation
Goodness
Kind
See
Some
Any
Representative
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus
Education
World
Sex
Girl
Enough
Sex Education
Soon
Come
How
Taught
Children
Legitimate
Cannot
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus
Word
Back
Distance
Takes
Look
Looks
Greater
Closer
Which
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus
Communication
Journalist
Ability
Ideas
Them
Express
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus
Time
Someone
Write
His
Essays
Aphorism
Should
Who
Away
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus
Attention Span
Culture
Press
Destroying
Attention
Mission
Spread
While
Span
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus
Other
Say
Well
Understand
Does
Hear
Very
Wants
Public
Each
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Karl Kraus
About
More
Unconscious
Knows
His
Than
Psychologist
Consciousness
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Karl Kraus
Sense
Soldier
Soldiers
Makes
Children
Why
Play
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus
Democracy
Opportunity
Everyone
Means
Slave
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