68 Quotes by Daron Rahlves

The way I was skiing downhill, I was on the podium in three events. But the super-G, it's the one event I just haven't had the confidence in like the downhill and giant slalom. I had the wrong thoughts in my head. I just wasn't super confident getting into the starting gate.

It would be nice to turn the tables.

It ---. We came up very short. We had skiers to bring home medals in every event. This is definitely a poor performance.

It was a little punishing on the top and it slowed me down a bit. But yesterday, I made a much worse turn, so I thought, 'OK, I've still had some good speed, I was ahead of it, and skiing pretty clean.' Then off that last jump, that was kind of a sweet feeling to hit that, then I get across the line and was really surprised to see where I was at.

The super-G is the toughest event because there's only one inspection and the speeds are high. It's pretty special to be on the podium with Bode and finish the season strong.

Sometimes you try to talk to him, and he's looking down and fiddling with his phone and stuff. I would have to go out of my way to talk to him. It would be me going out of my way to do that, and that's not for me. But we support each other on the hill.

Sometimes he says more than what he means, and you just laugh. I think any press is good in this sport, even if corporate sponsors don't like it.

As far as the media stuff is concerned, he's gotten a lot of play, a lot of (magazine) covers. That's good for our sport. To me, it's not really a big issue of me getting all the press. It's more like trying to get our sport some press, to get people to know what's coming up. ... What it comes down to, ultimately, is who's going to be skiing faster.

You see some of the best guys in the world crash. To me, that's what the sport is really about. You want to see guys put down some runs, like Franz Klammer back in the day.