I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
BODE MILLERA huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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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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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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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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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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it’s different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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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We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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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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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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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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