Ted Ligety quotes:

I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.

You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.

I was skiing fast in training, but that really doesn't count for anything until you actually do it in a race. So to finally get to prove how fast you are skiing is an added bonus that goes along with winning the first race of the year. Any race win is a good win. I don't really care where it is. I've been on the podium a bunch of times here, but it's always good for your confidence to start off the year with a victory.

If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.