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Bode Miller

You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
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
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
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
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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Anything People Sports Watches
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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Community Democracy Essence
Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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Legs Odd Skis
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time
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
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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Freedom Make Mitel People
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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Limping Years
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
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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Heart Listening People Telling
I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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Comfort Driven Style
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
When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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Easier Mistakes Sports
At this point in my career, I have the privilege of choosing my partners. In the beginning, you more or less take what comes in the door – or what matches up with your brand.
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Careers Choosing Doors Fashion Partner Privilege
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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Consistently Differently Racing Shapes Slightly Team
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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Consequences Danger Racing
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
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
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
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
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
It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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Honestly Important Life Living My

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