I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
BODE MILLERThe 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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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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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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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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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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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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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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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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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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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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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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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 simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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