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.
BODE MILLERIn 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.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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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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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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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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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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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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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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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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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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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