I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
BODE MILLERWhen 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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Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you’re proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.
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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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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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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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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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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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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 feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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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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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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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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