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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.

Bode Miller

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
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
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
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
The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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People Should Three
One kid’s old, used-up equipment is another kid’s brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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Equipment Kids Used
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
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
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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Athlete People Priorities
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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Challenge Drunk Mean Touch Wasted
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time
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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Kind Knows Memories
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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Kids Little Running Ski Wife
One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it’s different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
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Different Enthusiasm Hopefully Important Inspiration
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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Challenge Obviously Proud Race Winning
I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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Racing Skiing Sports

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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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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