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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

Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.
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Believe Believing Challenge Constant Philosophy Something
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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Feelings Hundrsths Winning World
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
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 same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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People Should Three
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
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
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
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
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
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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Challenge Drunk Mean Touch Wasted
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
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
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
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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Kind Knows Memories
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
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
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
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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Fun Mistake Regret
I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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Pride Thinking Unique
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
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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Kids Little Running Ski Wife
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
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
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
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time

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