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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?

Bode Miller

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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Fun Kids Winning
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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Fun Horse Journals Parallel Racing
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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Figures Kids Millions Values Years
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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Racing Skiing Sports
Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.
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Believe Believing Challenge Constant Philosophy Something
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
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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Heart Listening People Telling
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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Alone Kids Mountain School Thinking
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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Limping Years
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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Change Focus Sports Strategies
People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right.
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Athlete People Priorities
One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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Equipment Kids Used
I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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Pride Thinking Unique
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time
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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Cute Fashion Girl Stuck
That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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Hard Loud Million People Shouting
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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Challenge Drunk Mean Touch Wasted
Why don’t they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren’t necessarily mine. That’s the mistake people make.
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Freedom Make Mitel People
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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Comfort Driven Style
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
It is not that I don’t recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don’t fear the consequences.
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Consequences Danger Racing
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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Kind Knows Memories
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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Afternoon Back Google Meter Season Story
It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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Honestly Important Life Living My
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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Careers Choosing Doors Fashion Partner Privilege

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