Bode Miller Quotes

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.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

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.

Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.

I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

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?

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.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

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.

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.

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

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

People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.

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.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

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

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

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.

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.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.

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.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

I've been myself my whole life.

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.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

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.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

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?

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.

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.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

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

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.