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?
BODE MILLERSki racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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People in the U.S. will watch anything if it’s put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what’s possible, more than anything.
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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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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, 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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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It’s a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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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The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else’s back. That’s the essence of community.
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I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they’ll figure out I’ve got millions, but hopefully they’ll have the values to say, ‘So what?
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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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