Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
BODE MILLEROnce the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they just happen to watch me on TV and like the way I ski.
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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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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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When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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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.
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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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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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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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The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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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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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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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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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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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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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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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