I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
BODE MILLERSometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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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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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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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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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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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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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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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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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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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When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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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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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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