Bode Miller Quotes About Racing
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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? No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret.
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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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There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried to ski when you're wasted, it's not easy. Try and ski a slalom when … you hit a gate less than every one a second, so it's risky, you know. You're putting your life at risk there. It's like driving drunk only there's no rules about it in ski racing.
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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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I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.
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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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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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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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