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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.

Bode Miller

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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Challenge Obviously Proud Race Winning
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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Athlete People Priorities
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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Fun Mistake Regret
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
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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Figures Kids Millions Values Years
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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Heart Listening People Telling
Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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Hard Party Sometimes Train
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
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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Consistently Differently Racing Shapes Slightly Team
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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Limping Years
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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Fun Horse Journals Parallel Racing
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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Fun Kids Winning
When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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Easier Mistakes Sports
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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People Should Three
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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Change Focus Sports Strategies

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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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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