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We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.

Bode Miller

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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Careers Choosing Doors Fashion Partner Privilege
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing.
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Fun Kids Winning
One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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Equipment Kids Used
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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Hard Party Sometimes Train
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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Figures Kids Millions Values Years
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.
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Heart Listening People Telling
That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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Feelings Hundrsths Winning World
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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Cute Fashion Girl Stuck
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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Fun Mistake Regret
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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Alone Kids Mountain School Thinking
That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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Hard Loud Million People Shouting
The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.
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Judging Winning World
Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Better Clearly Person
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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Fun Horse Journals Parallel Racing
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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Daughter Everyone Mom Mother
Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
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Change Focus Sports Strategies
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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Community Democracy Essence
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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Fourth Mistake Podium Sports Winning
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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Believe Believing Challenge Constant Philosophy Something
I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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Pride Thinking Unique
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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Afternoon Back Google Meter Season Story
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
When you back off, it’s easier to do mistakes. For me it’s better to ski fast.
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Easier Mistakes Sports
Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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Legs Odd Skis
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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Place Probably Sking Today
Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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Arousal Careers Issues

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