Here’s the thing. You can’t get ten thousand hours of skiing. You spend so much time on the chairlift. My coach did a calculation of how many hours I’ve been on snow. We’d been overestimating. I think we came up with something like eleven total hours of skiing on snow a year. It’s, like, seven minutes a day. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
I just try to be as nice as possible and make fun of myself and laugh at the jokes. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
It’s hard to find someone who is really genuinely happy for you if you are having success and they’re not. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
Some sports, you see some athletes just walking around the gym not really doing anything, eating food. They’re first to the lunchroom, never lifting weights. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
I have all these things I want to do, but I don’t have to do them right away. Because it’s not just about winning, it’s about succeeding, which to me are two different things. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don’t even think about the medal unless someone asks about it. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
I’ve learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body. Mikaela Shiffrin Read Quote
