At the end of the day, you have to make sure you’re at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you.
BODE MILLERSometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else’s back. That’s the essence of community.
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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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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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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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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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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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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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I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
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One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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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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The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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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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