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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.

Bode Miller

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
BODE MILLER

Comfort Driven Style
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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Anything People Sports Watches
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
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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Place Probably Sking Today
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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Afternoon Back Google Meter Season Story
When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.
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Alone Kids Mountain School Thinking
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
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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Fun Mistake Regret
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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Careers Choosing Doors Fashion Partner Privilege
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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Consistently Differently Racing Shapes Slightly Team
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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Figures Kids Millions Values Years
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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Fun Horse Journals Parallel Racing
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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Heart Listening People Telling
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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Limping Years
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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Cute Fashion Girl Stuck
Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
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Change Focus Sports Strategies

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