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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.

Bode Miller

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
Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome.
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Join Outcome Purpose Unwillingness
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
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
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
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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Anything People Sports Watches
It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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Honestly Important Life Living My
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
When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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Easier Mistakes Sports
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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Athlete People Priorities
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
I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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Pride Thinking Unique
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
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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Different Enthusiasm Hopefully Important Inspiration
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
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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Change Focus Sports Strategies
The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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Judging Winning World
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
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time
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
Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Better Clearly Person
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
I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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Comfort Driven Style
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
One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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Equipment Kids Used
I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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Racing Skiing Sports

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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