It is not that I don’t recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don’t fear the consequences.
BODE MILLERArousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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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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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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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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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 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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We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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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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