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.
BODE MILLERMy 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.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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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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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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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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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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I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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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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When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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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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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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 simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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