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?
BODE MILLERMy 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.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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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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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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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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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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