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Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they just happen to watch me on TV and like the way I ski.

Bode Miller

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
I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
BODE MILLER

Pride Thinking Unique
People in the U.S. will watch anything if it’s put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what’s possible, more than anything.
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Anything People Sports Watches
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.
BODE MILLER

Athlete People Priorities
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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Join Outcome Purpose Unwillingness
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
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
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
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
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
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
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
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
One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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Equipment Kids Used
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
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

Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they just happen to watch me on TV and like the way I ski.

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