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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 Miller

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
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
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
My daughter’s name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born.
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Daughter Everyone Mom Mother
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
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
Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Better Clearly Person
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time
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

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