I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
BODE MILLERWe should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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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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That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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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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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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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 have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she’s stuck in that.
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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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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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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 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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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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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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