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Motivation Quote by Picabo Street

"Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now"

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Domestic life, in Picabo Street's telling, isn’t an off-season lull; it’s another discipline. The sentence structure is all doing: decorating, organizing, settling, now. It reads like a training log repurposed for a living room, where control and readiness matter as much as speed once did. For an athlete whose public identity was forged in motion and risk, the focus on home management signals a quieter kind of mastery: building a base camp.

The subtext lives in that casual pivot: “My best friend moved in... She’s my personal assistant now.” Friendship and employment collapse into a single relationship, and Street treats that as obvious, even practical. That’s telling. Elite athletes often rely on intense, intimate support networks; this line makes the backstage arrangement explicit. It suggests trust over formality, loyalty as infrastructure. It also hints at how relentless a high-profile life can be, even when you’re not racing downhill at 80 miles an hour. If you need an assistant, the “regular life” fantasy is already off the table.

There’s a cultural moment embedded here too: the early-2000s-to-now celebrity economy where personal brands run like small businesses, and the home becomes both sanctuary and headquarters. Street’s tone stays breezy, but the message is consequential: independence is rarely solitary. It’s staffed, shared, and carefully organized.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Street, Picabo. (2026, January 15). Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/here-at-the-house-ive-been-decorating-it-and-159104/

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Street, Picabo. "Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/here-at-the-house-ive-been-decorating-it-and-159104/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/here-at-the-house-ive-been-decorating-it-and-159104/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Picabo Street

Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971) is a Athlete from USA.

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