Bode Miller Quotes

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.

I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

I love to ski and drive fast cars and the thrill of exciting things.

I've always been addicted to adrenaline.

I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push their limits and all that. To me, that seems foolish, and there's no point.

There's times when I'll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I'll just laugh. 'What the heck am I doing right now? I'm sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.'

Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.

I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.

Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.