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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 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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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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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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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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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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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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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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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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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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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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There’s been times when I’ve been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you’re wasted, it’s not easy.
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