It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
BODE MILLERObviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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At this point in my career, I have the privilege of choosing my partners. In the beginning, you more or less take what comes in the door – or what matches up with your brand.
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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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In some ways, that’s the story of my season – when I wasn’t making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
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Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome.
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Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they just happen to watch me on TV and like the way I ski.
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The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life as long as you can?
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Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it’s different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
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Eventually I’d like to have a family. I’d like to not be limping around when I’m 50 years old.
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At the end of the day, you have to make sure you’re at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you.
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My daughter’s name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born.
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I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old – break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.
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There’s been times when I’ve been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you’re wasted, it’s not easy.
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Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you’re proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.
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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
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When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.
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When you get old, it’s hard to tell what’s memory and what you’ve kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
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