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.
BODE MILLERObviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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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 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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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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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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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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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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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We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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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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