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.
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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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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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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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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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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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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I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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My 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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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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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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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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 was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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