You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
BODE MILLERI don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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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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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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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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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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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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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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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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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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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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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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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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Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome.
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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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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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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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