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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

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
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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Fun Kids Winning
The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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People Should Three
Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Better Clearly Person
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
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
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
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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Community Democracy Essence
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 I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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Hard Party Sometimes Train
Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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Arousal Careers Issues
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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Challenge Drunk Mean Touch Wasted
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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Fourth Mistake Podium Sports Winning
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
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
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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Consequences Danger Racing

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