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.
BODE MILLERThe 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?
More Bode Miller Quotes
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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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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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Arousal-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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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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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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My daughter’s name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born.
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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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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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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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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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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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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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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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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The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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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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One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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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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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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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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