I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
BODE MILLERIf you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
More Bode Miller Quotes
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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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Sometimes I’m disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
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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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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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Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.
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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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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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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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Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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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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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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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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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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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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You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared.
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