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 MILLERA huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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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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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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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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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 best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else’s back. That’s the essence of community.
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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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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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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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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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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
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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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