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

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  Lows, Adrenaline, Huge

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

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  Private Life

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

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  Unhappy, Way, Unhappiness

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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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• 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 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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• My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.

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  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

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  People, Three, Should

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• I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive.

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  Sides, Busy, Partners

  "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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• 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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• I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she's stuck in that: "Oh my God, this is cute" phase, so when I go shopping with her and my wife, I can only last about 10 minutes before I have to start exploring other parts of the store.

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  Cute, Girl, Fashion

  "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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