Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome.
BODE MILLERAt 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.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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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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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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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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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 have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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