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 MILLERI would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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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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When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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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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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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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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