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A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Bode Miller

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
I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.
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Comfort Driven Style
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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Emotional Levels Running
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
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
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
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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Consequences Danger Racing
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
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
Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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Arousal Careers Issues
Eventually I’d like to have a family. I’d like to not be limping around when I’m 50 years old.
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Limping Years
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
Why don’t they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren’t necessarily mine. That’s the mistake people make.
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Freedom Make Mitel People
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
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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Consistently Differently Racing Shapes Slightly Team
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
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 same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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People Should Three
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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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Honestly Important Life Living My
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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