That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
BODE MILLERI 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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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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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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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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 have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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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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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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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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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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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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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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