Bode Miller speaks.

"I used to have a better life when I was nobody."

There's an easy fix for that, boyo.

"This pressure is inhumane, born out of an athlete's need to be number one. Sport should be a pleasure, a challenge against one's self. Sport is an act of freedom. On the piste you can push your limits and that is the essence of life."

Rrrrrright…that's why you went to the Olympics, because you thought it would be a nice, quiet, intimate sports thing that might get some play on ESPN2 between the Strong Man Competition and a report on sixth-graders who enjoy miniature golf…? If all you wanted was to just be the best in the world, you could break the record on your own time and just know it for yourself. You know, if you're just challenging yourself and all.

Sorry, I just get really pissed off when people work really hard to be famous, then whine about the "price of fame" while talking about how they never really wanted it like they have it. All this while there's no doubt tons of folks who would love that kind of problem.

So I'm sure there's plenty of skiers who would love it if you became a nobody again and freed up a space in the limelight, Bode. Just a thought.