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.
BODE MILLERObviously, 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.
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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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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That’s hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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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I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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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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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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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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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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My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.
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Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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