Bode Miller Quotes - Page 2

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• There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.

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  Winning, Giving, Guy

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• That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

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  Winning, Feelings, World

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• But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. 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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  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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• I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.

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  Moving, Challenges, Racing

  "Bode Miller on Life Off the Slopes and His New Deal With Aztech Mountain". Interview with WWD, wwd.com. September 10, 2016.

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• It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

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  Nice, Easier, Bunch

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• I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

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  Mean, Way, Ownership

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• I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

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  Pride, Unique, Thinking

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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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  Inspiration, Important, Different

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• I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. 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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  Years, Goggles, Noses

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• From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

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  Racing, Gone, Skis

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• 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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  Years, Limping

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

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  Lows, Adrenaline, Huge

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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. Obviously I clearly wouldn't like that person if I knew 'em better.

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  Running, Kids, Wife

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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. That's hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.

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  Heart, People, Listening

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• We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

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  Fun, Kids, Winning

  "Bad boy bode" by Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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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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  Sports, Mistake, Winning

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• I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

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  Private Life

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• I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.

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  Thinking, Long, Priorities

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• It's important for me to live my life honestly.

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  Important, Living My Life, Honestly

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• I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Challenges

  "Bad boy bode". Interview with Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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• 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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  Horse, Fun, Racing

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• 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. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

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  Athlete, People, Priorities

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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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  Team, Racing, Shapes

  "Bad boy bode" by Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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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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  Memories, Kind, Knows

  "Bode Miller: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'agostino, www.esquire.com. February 15, 2010.

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• Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.

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  Careers, Issues, Arousal

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