Bode Miller Quotes
I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.
Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.
I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.
Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
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.
If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.
One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
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?
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.
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.
From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.
Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
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.
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.
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.
I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.
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.
Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.
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?
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.
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.
The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.
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.
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.
