We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
BODE MILLERThe same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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 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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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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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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When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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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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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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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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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, 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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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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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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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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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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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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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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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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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