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 MILLERWhy don’t they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren’t necessarily mine. That’s the mistake people make.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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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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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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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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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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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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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 have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
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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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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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