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.
BODE MILLERWhen 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?
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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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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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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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 kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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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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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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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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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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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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