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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.

Bode Miller

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
That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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Hard Loud Million People Shouting
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
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
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
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
Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Better Clearly Person
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, 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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Challenge Obviously Proud Race Winning
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
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
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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Kids Little Running Ski Wife
I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
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Place Probably Sking Today
Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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Arousal Careers Issues
I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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Comfort Driven Style
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time
It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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Honestly Important Life Living My
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
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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Alone Kids Mountain School Thinking
Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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Legs Odd Skis
That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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Feelings Hundrsths 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
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
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 have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
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Cute Fashion Girl Stuck
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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Fun Mistake Regret
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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