“I really lack the words to compliment myself today.” — Alberto Tomba Quote

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

Whenever people need a good actor, they call me. It's a compliment but I want to have fun as well, with other kinds of roles.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

The Chitranna song from Buddhivanta' has done wonders and turned things around for me. Everyone's humming it, including kids, and that's a huge compliment.

Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.

I like other people to talk about me. I'll admit if I do well or not after a game. I just don't want to compliment myself.