The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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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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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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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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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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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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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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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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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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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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I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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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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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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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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