#us

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cost #episodes #experience #feeling #had

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#fast #give #guys #i #i can

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

— Bode Miller

#front #i #put #racing #seriously

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#boarding #boarding school #coaches #good #had

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#also #any #around #based #basically

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#big #fifth #fourth #i #just

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#does #go #here #i #just

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#brought #bunch #easier #how #i

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#electricity #era #exposure #got #growing

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. ↗

— Bode Miller

#athlete #athletes #because #best #cater