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 MILLERIt is not that I don’t recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don’t fear the consequences.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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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 way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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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 you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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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 was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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 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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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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