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 MILLERMy daughter’s name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born.
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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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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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We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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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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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 best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else’s back. That’s the essence of community.
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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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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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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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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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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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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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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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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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