The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else’s back. That’s the essence of community.
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?
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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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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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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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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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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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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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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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 is not that I don’t recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don’t fear the consequences.
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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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