From this inhuman pressure doping is born because the athlete feels the imperative of having to be No. 1. I believe instead that sport should be a pr… - Bode Miller

Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.

This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.

Fame is almost a poison. I couldn’t care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody.