Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
BODE MILLERPeople 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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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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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Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.
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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 don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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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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Why don’t they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren’t necessarily mine. That’s the mistake people make.
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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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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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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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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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