71 Quotes by Mikaela Shiffrin

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Drama holds you back.

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.

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.

It's hard to find someone who is really genuinely happy for you if you are having success and they're not.

I just try to be as nice as possible and make fun of myself and laugh at the jokes.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

I always practice, even on the cat tracks or in those interstitial periods. My dad says, 'Even when you're just stopping, be sure to do it right, maintaining a good position, with counter-rotational force.' These are the kinds of things my dad says, and I'm like, 'Shut up.'

You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body.