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.
BODE MILLERYou feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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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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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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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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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It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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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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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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