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If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?

Bode Miller

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
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
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
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
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 don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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Racing Skiing Sports
Obviously I clearly wouldn’t like that person if I knew ’em better.
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Better Clearly Person
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
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
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
That feeling is the same whether you’re on either side of the hundredths.
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Feelings Hundrsths Winning World
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
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
Sometimes it’s all about the win, sometimes it’s about the skiing.
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Skiing Sometimes Winning
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 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
I simply think things through, and I look at problems.
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Pride Thinking Unique
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
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
I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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Crashing Greatest Mistake Time
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
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Adrenaline Huge Lows
It’s important for me to live my life honestly.
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Honestly Important Life Living My
Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.
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Arousal Careers Issues
If you’re unhappy with the way you played, what’s the point?
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Unhappiness Unhappy Way
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
I wasn’t skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that’s probably what got me there.
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Place Probably Sking Today

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